Tourists enjoy sunbathing and kites fly in the sky at an ocean park in Rizhao, East China’s Shandong Province during the Qingming Festival holiday. Photo: VCG
China is expected to welcome another tourism boom during the upcoming Qingming Festival holidays, with remarkable growth in travel and hotel bookings, according to major online booking platforms on Tuesday, further pointing to the strong recovery of consumer sentiment and consumption, a critical barometer of China’s economic vitality.
The strong travel data expected during the three-day holidays come on the heels of an increasing number of robust economic indicators, ranging from manufacturing activity to foreign trade, all painting a rosy picture of China’s economic recovery. China’s solid economic recovery has become a bright spot for the world economy, a Chinese official said on Tuesday.
The expanding set of strong data for the first three months of 2024 has significantly lifted expectations for a more consolidated…
