A Chinese entertainment program is being recorded in Bathelton, Western Australia. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation Photo)
A Chinese Reality Show show, the wife`s Romantic Journey, has been found recording in Western Australia. Local tourism practitioners are excited about it.
According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, "A romantic trip to the wife" is a star-and-wife-dominated Reality Show program with the theme of a foreign country trip for the wife group. The main star in the latest season of the show is the famous Chinese actor Zhang Ziyi.
The recording team and stars came to Bathelton Bridge (Busselton Jetty) and Rhodes Island (Rottnest Island) to shoot this week. The production team`s presence in the coastal city of Rockingham (Rockingham) surprised local people.
Two hundred kilometers south of Perth, one of Bathelton`s famous attractions is the 1.8-kilometer-long Bartholton Trestle. The program asked the local government to keep the recording schedule confidential, but residents still saw the recording team eating at The Goose, a local restaurant.
(Peter Gordon), a local businessman, says this is certainly exciting news for the local community. Bartholton Mayor Henry (Grant Henley) also said he was excited to record the show locally. He said the recording stars have a large number of fans in China, and their arrival will greatly enhance Western Australia, especially Barthelton`s popularity in China.
Chinese visitors to Australia rose 13 percent to 1.39 million in the year to February 2018, according to Australia`s Bureau of Statistics (ABS). But the number of visitors to Western Australia is low. It is reported that Perth was chosen by the wife`s Romantic Journey as a result of the Western Australian-American business community.
Western Australia Tourism Board (Tourism WA) had previously set a goal of doubling Chinese tourists to one hundred thousand a year by 2020.
(Paul Papalia), the Director of Western Australia`s Tourism Department, welcomed the show`s arrival. He said that the average number of Chinese tourists visiting Western Australia each year is 57,000, with a total consumption of two hundred and seventy million nine hundred and ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine Australian dollars. In terms of consumption, China is the largest source of international tourists in Western Australia, and in developing the Chinese tourist market, There is still plenty of room for development in Western Australia.
Mr. Papalia also made it clear that authorities did not offer direct economic incentives to the show, but said it did not go without (Shanghai Trade Office), the Shanghai Trade Office of government, Western Australia, and the Western Australian Tourism Bureau.
Huang Songshan, a professor of tourism at Ediscoven University (Edith Cowan University), said news of the program`s shooting in Western Australia had been widely circulated on Chinese social media, including social app. It will help to increase the exposure of Western Australia in the Chinese market and attract Chinese tourists.
