Source::Xinhuanet
Beijing,
China's tourism sector has reported a strong recovery so far this year and is expected to continue its current momentum as China further lifts travel restrictions amid a stable COVID-19 situation.
The tourism sector logged encouraging statistics during the Spring Festival holiday in mid-February, according to data from the China Tourism Academy. Domestic tourism revenue recorded year-on-year growth starting from the third day of the weeklong holiday, while the number of tourists traveling to and from major tourist destinations like Guangdong, Shanghai and Beijing exceeded or almost reached the levels seen during the 2019 Spring Festival.
The demand for leisure city travel, vacations in the suburbs, family trips and study tours showed a strong upward trend, the academy said. The country's civil aviation industry handled approximately 23.95 million passenger trips in February, a jump of 187.1 percent year on year, the latest data from the Civil Aviation Administration of China showed.
Air travel picked up steam soon after the holiday, during which many Chinese people opted to stay put in response to the government's call to avoid unnecessary gatherings. Passenger traffic on domestic routes has returned to the level seen during the same period in 2019, according to data from online travel service provider qunar.com.
Increasing hotel bookings also pointed to people's willingness to travel. Sanya, Wuxi and Lhasa are among tourists' favored domestic destinations. By March 9, hotel bookings for the Tomb-sweeping Day holiday in early April had increased to 4.5 times the number of bookings seen on the same date a year earlier.
The number of hotel reservations on May 1, the first day of the five-day May Day holiday, has exceeded the number from the same day in 2019, the data showed.
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