During the May Day holiday in 2023, the Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring scenic area in Dunhuang, Gansu ushered in the peak tourist flow. With the increase of tourists experiencing the scenic spot net celebrity project "desert riding camel", more than 2400 peak camels in the scenic spot in short supply, and even appeared the phenomenon of "camel blocking".

"At present desert riding camel project needs to enter the scenic area after a separate purchase. When visitors arrive at the pick-up point, they can decide whether to buy tickets or not according to the real-time passenger flow. It takes about an hour to ride a camel because there are many tourists during holidays. The relevant person in charge of the Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring scenic spot introduced that, because there are two crossing points between the pedestrian path and the camel passage, there will be a phenomenon of "camel blocking" in the high period of human flow.

"Green camel light, camel line; Red camel light, camel stop." In order to solve the problem of "blocking camels", the Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring scenic spot has specially set up traffic lights to guide the orderly diversion of people, cars and camels. Today, the "camel traffic light" has become one of the spots where Internet celebrities punch in.

Wang Youxia, deputy general manager of Dunhuang Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring Tourism Development Co., LTD., introduced that in order to ensure the smooth development of tourism reception during the holiday, the scenic spot has taken a number of measures, and give full play to the role of "camel traffic light", opening emergency camel road in the camel downhill section, so that the camel can avoid special circumstances in the process of travel, all the way smooth. At the same time, strengthen the distribution of passenger flow diversion, convenient for tourists to buy tickets to enter the park. "In order to cope with the large passenger flow, all the scenic spot cadres and staff are on duty to channel the passenger flow in the morning and evening at the peak of the passenger flow. We all work together to serve every tourist, and resolutely do not let any tourist feel wronged."

"During the May Day holiday, the scenic spot ushered in a peak of passenger flow, which made us more confident. "The scenic spot has also introduced preferential measures to allow visitors to enter the park multiple times within three days after purchasing a ticket." Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring scenic spot Marketing Department staff said, "Welcome to the Crescent Spring, experience the Silk Road style, enjoy the desert scenery."