Promoting Five Major Themes of Local Tourism in Hualien: Video Creation Leadership Camp Successfully Concludes

Hualien County - Yesterday (the 24th), the graduation ceremony of the "2019 Hualien Tourism Experience Video Creation Leadership Camp" was held at the Meilun Hotel. County Magistrate Hsu Chen-wei, accompanied by Tourism Director Tang Yu-shu, attended the event and presented graduation certificates and commended outstanding trainees. County Magistrate Hsu Chen-wei encouraged the young leader trainees, saying that Hualien is a place worth young people pursuing their dreams and working hard for. She hoped that through the perspectives of these young elite leaders, a new Hualien would be presented in novel and innovative ways, allowing more people to know Hualien and fall in love with Hualien.

In her speech, County Magistrate Hsu Chen-wei stated that she welcomed outstanding young people from across the country to come to Hualien for in-depth travel on the ground, to experience together the unique local nature, cultural characteristics, and customs, and to discover the beauty of Hualien from different perspectives. By transforming the local impressions they felt into videos and sharing them across the country and even with the whole world, more people would be able to know Hualien, walk into Hualien, experience Hualien, and fall in love with Hualien.

The 2019 Hualien Tourism Experience Video Creation Leadership Camp was an event organized by the Hualien County Tourism Department. The event ran for four days from July 21 to 24 and gathered outstanding young people from across the country who love travel to come together in Hualien. Through in-depth on-the-ground travel, participants experienced unique local nature, cultural characteristics, and other tourism activities, allowing young students to learn video creation and then discover the beauty of Hualien from different perspectives. This event offered a grand prize of 100,000 yuan and a runner-up prize of 20,000 yuan, attracting enthusiastic applications from university students with photography skills from all over the country. A total of 80 trainees were selected to participate. The event was divided into five major tourism themes: "Indigenous Villages," "Rural Leisure," "Ecotourism," "Urban Experience," and "Hot Spring Soaks," with trainees visiting and experiencing them in groups. During the period, trainees recorded what they saw and heard during the itinerary through on-the-ground travel. Afterwards, they would edit and produce promotional films to enter the competition. Through the interaction of video sharing, they would inspire people to walk into Hualien and feel the warmth of every corner, driving a new wave of tourism topics for Hualien.