{"id":980,"date":"2009-09-11T10:25:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T07:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=980"},"modified":"2009-09-11T10:25:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T07:25:14","slug":"shanghai-tourism-festival-starts-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/shanghai-tourism-festival-starts-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Tourism Festival starts this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/shanghai-tourism-festival.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-981\" title=\"Shanghai Tourism Festival starts this weekend\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/shanghai-tourism-festival-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Shanghai Tourism Festival starts this weekend\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>Maybe you&#8217;ve noticed a cutesy lil&#8217; deer mascot named \u4e50\u4e50 (Lele) posing around town, or maybe you&#8217;ve actually opened up the papers today to see Shanghai media enthusiastically promoting the occasion &#8211; but yes, the Shanghai Tourism Festival is starting up this Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>The annual tourism fest is a chance for Shanghai to promote its own attractions, as well as to show off other countries as possible vacation spots to the ever-increasing Shanghai middle class. So what&#8217;s in store for us this year? Some of the highlights include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEPTEMBER 12<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Opening Gala &#8211; held at Happy Valley in the not-so-specific time frame of &#8220;afternoon.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Opening Parade &#8211; Starting at 7:30pm, a 22-float parade will travel down Huaihai Lu, between Shaanxi Nan Lu and Xizang Nan Lu.<br \/>\nCarnival Grand Opening &#8211; After the parade ends, head over to the Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street between 9pm and 11pm for song and dance performances and other types of carnival-like fun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEPTEMBER 13<\/strong><br \/>\nJiuzi Park Games &#8211; A whole bunch of competitions will take place throughout the day at Jiuzi Park, including photography, shows and&#8230; kids&#8217; games. We&#8217;re not exactly sure what those kids games are, but the site assures us that if we were old Shanghainese, we&#8217;d know exactly what they&#8217;re talking about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEPTEMBER 17 to 19<\/strong><br \/>\nHip Hop Dancing Competition &#8211; We&#8217;re hoping that this will end up like a Shanghai&#8217;s Best Dance Crew contest or something. Watch spins, pop n&#8217; lockin&#8217; and all that good stuff at Century Square on Nanjing Lu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEPTEMBER 13 to OCTOBER 6<\/strong><br \/>\nFood Festival &#8211; Major restaurants are apparently participating in various food fairs, flavor dish exhibitions and farm markets throughout the next four weeks. We&#8217;re still searching for the page that tells us exactly which restaurants will be participating&#8230; if anyone can tip us off, we&#8217;d be extremely grateful!<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you&#8217;ve noticed a cutesy lil&#8217; deer mascot named \u4e50\u4e50 (Lele) posing around town, or maybe you&#8217;ve actually opened up the papers today to see Shanghai media enthusiastically promoting the occasion &#8211; but yes, the Shanghai Tourism Festival is starting up this Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}