The explosive growth of seafood catering industry in Sanya, the official measures to create a safe seafood tour.
BEIJING, Sanya, January 28 (Reporter Wang Xiaobin) A video of a Sanya seafood store owner collectively pulling a banner to boycott his peers’ soliciting and slaughtering customers has aroused widespread concern in recent days. Sanya officials responded late at night on the 27th that after unannounced visits, two seafood processing shops in Sanya’s first market were punished for stopping their business activities and revoking their business licenses.
This is not the first time that Sanya has issued a "one-time death" (revocation of business license) ticket to illegal seafood shops. Just last November, two seafood restaurants were directly revoked their business licenses because of the behavior of bullying customers, and the shareholders and responsible persons of the merchants were blacklisted in the industry.
Behind the current situation of "repeated prohibitions" and "peer protests" is the "explosive" growth of Sanya seafood catering industry in recent years.
On the one hand, the "cake" in Sanya seafood catering market is getting bigger and bigger. According to the calculation of Sanya Seafood Food Stall Association, in 2017, Sanya seafood catering industry received 18 million tourists and its revenue was nearly 3 billion yuan. Industry derivative revenue is estimated to be 15 billion yuan, up 10% from 2016.
On the other hand, the number of companies involved in sharing "cakes" has also increased in the past two years. Pei Wang, Secretary-General of Sanya Seafood Food Stall Association, said that after the "high-priced seafood incident" in 2012, Sanya seafood catering industry ushered in a wave of "reshuffle". Seafood restaurants with their own ingredients were once silent, and most of the passengers turned to processing shops. Seafood restaurants and food plazas mainly based on the processing mode of raw materials have mushroomed. Statistics released by Sanya Seafood Food Stall Association show that as of January 10, 2018, there were 232 seafood restaurants in Sanya (including 12 large seafood squares). Among them, only 12 large seafood plazas have more than 70,000 seats. "With the seats in other restaurants, Sanya can provide seafood for 100,000 people at the same time." Wang Pei Shuo.
Accompanied by mushrooming, it is extremely fierce competition. In order to attract customers, the industry has made various moves. In the Locomotive Seafood Plaza, the owner put up a banner saying, "One or two pounds less, then 100 yuan", and the words of local flavor, Sichuan flavor and Northeast flavor were written in a conspicuous position in the processing shop on the site. In the south sea area, merchants send battery cars to patrol the streets and lanes, "stop when you wave, and pick them up for free." Some seafood processing shops around the first market, compared with cash checkout, the boss welcomes online group buying, "online message evaluation to send juice." Even more desperate people resort to illegal means such as hiring "soliciting girls" and bribing taxi drivers.
"We don’t know much about seafood. Searching for Sanya seafood online came up with a bunch of strategies such as shady and anti-slaughter, which scared us almost to come." In a large seafood market, Li Gang, a Beijing tourist who came to Sanya for the first time, said that after reading news reports and comments from netizens for a long time, he "resolutely chose to eat seafood here".
"Seafood food has become one of the main forms of tourism in Sanya," said Pang Yongda, head of the Marketing Department of Sanya Tourism Commission. While cracking down on illegal businesses, Sanya has built a credit system and tried to create a "seafood safe tour".
According to the reporter’s understanding, since the "high-priced seafood" incident in 2012, Sanya has successively launched a number of measures to control the seafood catering market, such as daily maximum price of seafood products, electronic ordering system and strict investigation of commercial bribery. The relevant person in charge of Sanya Industrial and Commercial Bureau said that Sanya strictly controls the tourism market according to law and makes every effort to create a tourism environment of "safe travel" and "comfortable travel". In the next step, the bureau will continue to carry out industry standardization and rectification of seafood processing shops, promote the use of "integrity frame" and "rest assured scale", establish a normalized unannounced visit mechanism, etc., standardize the operation order of the seafood market, and safeguard the market environment of fair competition and the legitimate rights and interests of citizens and tourists. (End)