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May 20, 2024 · After Zibo and its barbecue restaurants became a viral sensation in April last year, many observers in the media and online believed the city would share the same fate as other once internet-famous tourist destinations: one cycle of virality with increased media attention, explosive tourist influx, followed by a quick cooldown, and then return to pre-viral normalcy.
- Barbe-Queue Forever: How Social Media Hype Changed Zibo
But he was still sucked in by the online barbecue hype that...
- Barbe-Queue Forever: How Social Media Hype Changed Zibo
May 21, 2023 · Zibo, a once-obscure chemical manufacturing city in Shandong Province, has suddenly strangely — thanks to, of all things, barbecue — turned into China’s hottest tourist destination. RUSSIA ...
Apr 15, 2023 · As one of its tourism promotion initiatives, Zibo has set up special tourist trains and dedicated BBQ bus routes to attract groups of tourists and boost local tourism after the pandemic years. Train ticket sales for May 1st already doubled that of Spring Festival, and tickets for the Beijing South-Zibo route sold out online within a minute the moment they became available.
May 16, 2023 · But he was still sucked in by the online barbecue hype that has turned this once relatively obscure city 430 kilometers south of the capital into a viral tourist destination. Zibo and its barbecue restaurants, particularly around the city’s Badaju area, have blown up on the Chinese internet over the past three months. Photos of tourists ...
There are more than 1,270 barbecue joints in Zibo, according to the city's Barbecue Association. Zibo, a sleepy industrial city of 4.7 million in eastern China, is not typically known as a tourist ...
May 4, 2023 · The tourist buses cover almost all the city's attractions and the local residents are very enthusiastic and friendly when asked for help," a visitor from Beijing surnamed Feng said. "The only ...
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Apr 17, 2023 · The hype continued, Zibo topped the train ticket search chart on the 14 and 15 this month, Meituan data showed, with Beijing to Zibo train tickets for May 1, the first day of the five-day Labor Day holiday, sold out in a minute. Zibo is certainly not the only city in China that offers barbecue, or even the most famous one, but its seemingly ...
