10th Hebei Tourism Development Conference Held in Cangzhou, Focusing on Grand Canal Cultural Touris…
The 10th Hebei Tourism Development Conference was held in Cangzhou, using Grand Canal culture as its IP and integrating martial arts and acrobatics resources. The event featured live performances, folk markets and resource matchmaking, and released the 'Towards High Quality: 2026 Cultural Tourism Scene Innovation Development Report.' Cangzhou is the first prefecture-level city named a national martial arts hometown, with 53 boxing styles; Canghai Qixia Town features 174 new business formats and over 60 performance and interactive projects.
Impact and considerations
The conference showcases a scene-based operating model integrating Grand Canal cultural IP with martial arts and acrobatics intangible heritage, and releases a cultural tourism scene innovation report, offering industry reference for destination marketing, event planning and cultural tourism investment.
Key points
- The 10th Hebei Tourism Development Conference was held in Cangzhou, using Grand Canal culture as its IP and integrating martial arts and acrobatics resources.
- Cangzhou is the first prefecture-level city named a national martial arts hometown, with 53 boxing styles—over 40% of the national total.
- Canghai Qixia Town created the original 'Canghai Seven Heroes' IP, featuring 174 new business formats and over 60 performance and interactive projects running all day.
- During the conference, the Grand Canal Intangible Heritage Tourism Experience Week and the first Intangible Heritage Stunt Performance event brought together heritage bearers from provinces and cities along the canal.
- The 'Grand Canal Live Hebei' event invited travel influencers from 19 countries to livestream to over 150 countries and regions globally.
- The conference released the 'Towards High Quality: 2026 Cultural Tourism Scene Innovation Development Report,' noting that Hebei's scene innovation has shifted toward comprehensive organization of resources, space, content, formats and activities.
Sources and time
- Primary source
- 中国旅游新闻网
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- First source publication
- 21 Sept 2026, 08:00
- Page published
- 21 Sept 2026, 12:01
- Last updated
- 21 Sept 2026, 08:00
- Original links
- China Tourism News：沧州 文旅深融合书写大运河魅力-中国旅游新闻网Document (opens in a new tab)Primary source · zh · Published 21 Sept 2026, 08:00