On the morning of September 22, the GOVY AirCab slowly ascended from the south plaza of the Dunhuang Convention and Exhibition Center, completing a circular flight and a fixed-point hover at an altitude of 30 to 50 meters. The Gobi Desert, morning light, and the aircraft shared the same frame, marking the first public scene following the signing of a low-altitude air-travel and tourism integration hub demonstration project agreement between Guangdong GOVY Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as "GOVY") and the city of Dunhuang. GOVY is a low-altitude mobility technology company incubated by GAC Group, currently focusing on the research, manufacturing, and operation of aircraft.

The significance of this flight demonstration goes beyond simply showcasing that the aircraft can fly. For GOVY, the Dunhuang project is already addressing a more specific commercial question: once flying cars enter a cultural tourism destination, how can they evolve from a one-time experience into an operational system that connects scenic areas, cultural content, and consumer services? The conditions in Dunhuang provide the starting point for this exploration. Local attractions such as the Singing Sand Dunes and Crescent Moon Spring, the Yardang National Geological Park, and the Yangguan and Yumen Pass sites each have their own unique characteristics, and they are spread across a relatively large geographic area.

While tourists can enjoy the scenery from the ground, the travel time between scenic areas offers a practical application space for low-altitude shuttle services. Ge Jing, Deputy General Manager of GAC GOVY, told the media that Dunhuang possesses world-class cultural tourism resources, favorable airspace conditions, a base of visitors from around the globe, and strong local government support for the low-altitude economy. These factors together contributed to the partnership. For low-altitude cultural tourism, landscape resources determine the experience content, visitor volume supports service demand, and airspace and infrastructure form the foundation for operational implementation. Whether an aircraft can integrate into a tourism destination depends not only on product capability but also on its coordination with scenic area services, transportation organization, and cultural content.

The two parties plan to advance the project in three phases: display and promotion, pilot operations, and scenic area networking. According to GOVY's disclosed plan, the initial phase will focus primarily on static displays, flight demonstrations, and the development of the "Flying Silk Road" cultural tourism IP. Subsequently, flight operations will be launched in conjunction with specific scenic areas, enriching business formats such as sightseeing, cultural performances, and cultural-creative consumption. After supporting infrastructure, including vertiports, weather monitoring networks, and airspace coordination, is gradually improved, the project will promote low-altitude shuttle services between multiple scenic areas.

Ge Jing stated that low-altitude flight is a systematic project, and manufacturing the aircraft is only one part of it. Once aircraft enter real-world scenarios, they also require the support of vertiport facilities, route design, meteorological services, safety operation standards, and scenic area service systems. GOVY's work in Dunhuang will also gradually extend from aircraft display to operational capability building. According to the cooperation plan, GOVY will accumulate experience in areas such as scenic area vertiport planning, sightseeing route design, cultural tourism content integration, and safe operations, forming a set of reusable operational modules.

Low-altitude sightseeing can provide tourists with a new observational perspective, while shuttle services between scenic areas can incorporate the movement process into the tourism experience itself. The combination of flight experiences and cultural-creative consumption will also extend the content of cultural tourism services. Dunhuang's natural environment provides a more targeted testing ground for this model. High temperatures, large day-night temperature differences, wind and sand, and sandstorms impose higher demands on aircraft operations. Ge Jing revealed that GOVY has already conducted more than four months of summer testing in Gansu this year, experiencing conditions including high heat, sudden temperature drops between day and night, windblown sand, and sandstorms, with all relevant test programs completed. The test results validated the product's usability in Dunhuang's harsh environment and provided support for future safe operations and passenger experiences.

GOVY has now formed a product matrix with the AirCab, AirCar, and AirJet models, covering scenarios such as low-altitude sightseeing, short-distance urban shuttle services, and intercity rapid travel. The AirCab can serve short-range sightseeing and close-distance shuttles, while products designed for longer ranges can cover travel needs between more distant scenic areas. Taking destinations like Yardang as an example, road travel currently consumes considerable time. In the future, a combination of products with varying ranges can add new connection methods for tourism across Dunhuang: visitors could complete low-altitude sightseeing within a scenic area and also enjoy more experiential travel services between scenic areas.

From a single aircraft completing a demonstration over the Gobi Desert to multiple scenic areas being linked by low-altitude routes, GOVY is building an operational model for low-altitude cultural tourism in Dunhuang. This project brings aircraft manufacturing, low-altitude services, and cultural tourism resources into coordinated development within a single scenario, also providing a more tangible commercial pathway for the low-altitude economy to enter more cultural tourism destinations.