Scenic sites discount tickets for inaugural National Tourism Day

BEIJING - Free and discounted tickets for many of China's most popular tourist attractions are being offered to promote the country's first National Tourism Day on Thursday.

Tourists will be able to get half-price tickets for all the scenic spots in North China's Shanxi province, according to the provincial tourism bureau.

While in the island province of Hainan, free tickets and discount coupons will be distributed around the island's west coast, and all tourists taking public transport from Thursday to Saturday will get half-price tickets for the Li and Miao ethnic groups' cultural tourism zone.