Recently, the Beihu District won the "top ten counties (urban areas)" of Hunan tourism industry development in the 2016 Hunan province tourism industry development work evaluation, which was the only district to win the award in whole city.
In recent years, Beihu District attached great importance to tourism development work, pushed forward the strategy of tourism strong area, fully amplified the location advantages and natural ecological advantages, took the leisure travel, cultural tourism, and global tourism as the starting point, and regarded the tourism industry as an important pillar industry of Beihu district. Beihu District has been rated as the "national leisure agriculture and rural tourism demonstration zone", "China's most beautiful ecological leisure travel area" and "national self driving tour destination pilot area".