Wang Haolan

Holly_cn@163.com

IF you are a loyal member of Marriott Bonvoy, here’s a good tip for planning your next summer trip.

A total of 36 member hotels, apartments and resorts of the loyalty program, most of which are located in downtown areas or near tourist attractions across Chinese provinces and regions including Shandong, Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, Ningxia, Hebei, Hubei, and Tibet Autonomous Region, jointly launched a promotional hospitality package that offers concessions in room rates and travel guides to popular destinations featuring nature landscapes and culture heritages in the above mentioned areas.

The program was kicked off by a sharing session attended by hoteliers, media outlets, lifestyle bloggers and tourism KOLs at The Westin Qingdao on July 7. Stalls were set up at the pre-banquet cocktail party, where Tsingtao Beer, Laoshan coke and Oldenlandia water were served. Each guest received coupons at the reception that they could use to purchase street food and specialties from the cities of Qingdao, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Xi’an, and Chengdu.

At intervals during the banquet, which featured the must-eat cold water seafood in Qingdao and signature dishes from Shandong cuisine such as stewed sea cucumber, three groups of bloggers and KOLs shared with the guests about their trips to Xi’an, Zhengzhou and Chengdu, and reviewed with slide presentations and vlogs their stays at local Marriott Bonvoy hotels. They had designed their itineraries with different emphases on family experience, folk culture and photo shooting and gave travelers useful tips for customizing their own summer trips.

The hotel also organized familiarization trips to Tsingtao Brewery and Lao Mountains Scenic Areas to introduce the guests to Qingdao’s time-honored, exotic and picturesque tourist destinations.

Marriott Bonvoy members can check out the eligible hotels and reserve the package on the official website of Marriott International, the Marriott Bonvoy app, and the official store of Marriott International on China’s Booking.com-like Fliggy app before Oct. 10. Each reservation will be provided with a customized backpack and a travel bottle when checking in at the hotels.