Tourism revenue in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region was up to 761.99 billion yuan ($113 billion) as 288.86 million travelers visited the region in 2018, according to statistics from the Guangxi Tourist Data Center.

The most popular tourist destinations in the region were Nanning, Guilin, Liuzhou, and Beihai, which took in more than 60 percent of all tourists. Nanning alone received 52.12 million visitors last year, accounting for 32.84 percent of the total.

Tourists escape the summer heat in Guangxi's Longjing village. [Photo/gx.people.cn]

The majority of travelers were from Guangdong, Hunan and Zhejiang provinces. Young and middle-aged people were the primary demographic.

More than half of tourists took trains to Guangxi, but the number of tourists travelling by car and coach has been rising.

The effect of the "Winter Tourism in Guangxi" promotional campaign carried out in 13 provinces and municipalities throughout China was evident. The region received 6,083,232 travelers from these regions from Dec 1, 2018 to Jan 27, 2019, up 22.52 percent year-on-year.