The 2026 Guangxi Cultural Tourism Carnival will be held. Six major activities will present a new look at the integration of culture and tourism in Bagui.

China News Service, Hezhou, Guangxi, November 7 (Wei Jiaxiu, Zhang Guangquan) From November 6 to 8, the 2026 Guangxi Cultural Tourism Carnival (referred to as: Carnival) was held in Hezhou. With the theme of "Poetic Huang Yao at Home in Guangxi", the event centered on the main line of "100 industries + cultural tourism" and "100 industries + 100 industries", and through immersive situational experiences, it focused on displaying new business formats, new technologies, and new scenes in cultural tourism across Guangxi.

Pictured is the event site. Photo by Yang Qiaofeng

According to reports, this carnival is an important supporting activity of the Guangxi Cultural Tourism Development Conference, which comprehensively demonstrates the results of the integrated development of Guangxi's cultural tourism, expands the boundaries of the "cultural tourism +" industry, and stimulates the potential of the consumer market.

During this period, six major activities were simultaneously carried out: Guangxi's cultural and tourism boutique image display activities, Guangxi's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Application Cultural Tourism Industry Achievements Exhibition, 2026 Guangxi Catering Culture Activity Week, Guangxi's "Good House" Life Festival, "Come from All Sides Supply and Marketing Benefiting the People" 2026 Guangxi Supply and Marketing Fair, and exhibition of outstanding intangible cultural heritage stage art works to comprehensively display the new achievements of the integrated development of culture and tourism in Guangxi.

At the site of the Guangxi cultural and tourism boutique image display event, the Hezhou exhibition area set up an interactive experience area for "nature nourishment, health nourishment, food nourishment, medical nourishment, and summer nourishment" to dynamically display tourism products and routes such as Huangyao Ancient Town, Gupo Mountain and Xixi Hot Spring. The remaining 13 districts and cities in Guangxi are the same as the Hezhou exhibition area, focusing on displaying new cultural and tourism products and popular goods from various places.

The picture shows citizens and tourists watching robots dancing. Photo by Yang Qiaofeng

There are a variety of park activities on site, with Guangxi cultural tourism NPC characters such as Xu Xiake, Liu Sanjie, and Miao Xiaogui appearing together to interact closely with tourists; game sessions suitable for all ages allow tourists to enjoy themselves; novel experiences such as robot hand-made coffee, robot fruit ice cream, and AI cultural tourism interaction make science fiction come true.

This exhibition area is also the only exhibition area in this carnival that focuses on displaying new cultural tourism formats, cultural and creative hot products and intangible cultural heritage living scenes in Guangxi. Representative inheritors of Zhuang sachets, Momo production, Yao brocade and other intangible cultural heritage are stationed on site, allowing tourists to experience the unique charm of Guangxi’s intangible cultural heritage up close.

The Guangxi Artificial Intelligence Application Cultural Tourism Industry Achievements Exhibition is also one of the highlights of this event. The exhibition takes the triple integration of "humanistic heritage, landscape ecology, and smart technology" as its concept. It adopts a garden-style layout and scene-style moving lines to integrate Guangxi's beautiful landscapes, landmark buildings in fourteen prefectures and cities, and colorful ethnic cultural elements into the exhibition space, creating an immersive viewing experience of "landscapes entering the park, culture entering the scenery, and technology entering the park".

The exhibition area is equipped with a future smart travel experience hall to systematically present the practical results of AI empowering the entire cultural tourism chain; the seven immersive experience exhibition areas cover multiple sectors such as AI+ performances, AI+ wellness, AI+ short plays, AI+ scenic spots, AI+ low-altitude, etc., gathering the cutting-edge achievements of domestic leading technology companies, and displaying multi-scenario applications such as smart scenic spots, digital cultural museums, and virtual entertainment.

This carnival also sets up the 2026 Guangxi Catering Culture Week. The Guipai "Fourteen Flavors" Food Exhibition Area focuses on bringing special delicacies and local ingredients from 14 cities in the region. It combines skills display, food tasting, online live streaming and other methods to open up production and marketing channels and help accurately connect supply and demand.

The picture shows the scene of the supply and marketing event. Photo by Yang Qiaofeng

It is worth mentioning that the "Bafang Fenyun" rice noodle block focuses on promoting Guangxi's "Three Bowls of Noodles", continues to build the "Guangxi Rice Noodles" brand, and simultaneously displays a variety of new consumption scenarios ranging from offline dine-in to online retail and smart sales. The "Bafang Baida" Snack Street introduces popular snacks and special folk flavors from all over the country, and invites representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage and folk masters to make on-site demonstrations to show the colorful food customs of various ethnic groups.

This event also held an exhibition of outstanding Guangxi intangible cultural heritage stage art works in 2026. Relying on the literary and art troupe, the exhibition selected 10 high-quality programs such as the Zhuang nationality singing "Anecdote of Frost's Descent in Yamo" and the wren opera "Carrying a Load of Chenpi to Beijing". It showcased the inheritance and development of endangered operas through various art forms such as traditional folk arts, local operas, folk dances and folk dances.