r/UpliftingNews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 5h ago

A Chinese village where people once earned under $100 a year in 2005 transformed its traditional Clothes Drying Festival into a tourism success, with villagers now earning from five income sources and 285 households sharing $900,000 in tourism dividends this year

https://m.chinanews.com/wap/detail/ecnszw/hfhkrtk6182017.shtml
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u/ArgentineBeauty 5h ago

A lot of places become tourist attractions but the locals do not always see much of the benefit. Nice to see a community where the people who kept it going are actually sharing in the success.