Since 2010, Tourism Research Center of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has cooperated with lotour.com to carry out a continuing investigation on hot spots of tourism. In accordance with the investigation, citizens' attention paid to domestic cities exhibits the following characteristics. First, hot tourism cities received sustained attention. Second, part of the concerned cities own distinct seasonal pattern. The degree of attention paid to domestic attractions also exhibits some characteristics. First, attention paid to those attractions with advantageous resources and services is much higher. Second, if the city gets more attention, attention-degree of its attractions will be also higher. Last but not the least, marine tourism has become a new hot spot. As for outbound destination, cities in Asia occupy the highest proportion, which are followed by European, Oceania, African and North American ones. It is worth to mention that it conducts investigation and analysis on many interests such as Spring Festival Travel, Tomb-sweeping Day Hot Spring Festival, the Spring Outing, The Prairie Tourism, Gemini Tourist City, Outline of National Tourism and Leisure and National Tourism Day.
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