A six-day tourism promotion campaign has been carried out in Beijing, Shanghai and Hefei to popularize Shandong's tourism resources from Dec 18 to 23, informed an official.

The officer also said that an 11-member delegation of Yantai attended the campaign, distributed 25,000 leaflets and 21,000 free tickets of scenic spots worth 1.53 million yuan ($236,133).

Yantai's wine tour received welcome by tour agencies. The Changyu International Wine City, a famous tourist attraction in Yantai, reached an agreement with some travel agencies on the 2016 holiday tourism. More than 40 tour packages including 2,800 tourists are expected to be sent to Changyu.

A total of 57 agreements worth 80 million yuan were signed during the campaign, involving tourism products of Beijing-Yantai five day tour, Shanghai-Yantai-South Korea tour and Anhui-Yantai-Qingdao-Weihai tour, added the officer.

Edited by Shahnawaz Akhtar