The terrorist attack in southwest China's Kunming on Saturday has had and will have a limited impact on tourism in Yunnan Province, the provincial tourism authority said on Tuesday.
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Signs that tourism in the province had been affected emerged on Monday, when six domestic tour groups canceled their trips to the city, accounting for one percent of total Kunming-bound tour groups on that day, according to Yu Fan, deputy director of the Yunnan tourism development committee.
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There have also been cancellations of Kunming-bound trips from overseas tour groups, Yu said, without specifying the number.
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Yunnan is a major tourist province in China.
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Yu added that no cancellation requests were made after police arrested three suspects involved in the terrorist attack on Monday night.
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The committee said no trip cancellations have been reported for groups traveling to other parts of the province.
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Officials statistics show that the number of tourists at ten major scenic spots in the province slid 5.49 percent on Monday but began to recover on Tuesday.
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Yu said tourism authorities in Yunnan had started emergency response mechanism immediately after the attack and offered special care to injured tourists.
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In the future, the province's tourism industry shall need to prepare itself for terrorist attack, which will involve necessary trainings for employees, Yu said.
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A group of veiled men and women slashed at people frantically at Kunming's railway station on Saturday night, killing 29 civilians and injuring 143 others.