China’s tourism industry is set to experience a significant recovery during the ongoing three-day Qingming holiday which started on Thursday.
The Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday for people to pay tribute to the deceased, worship ancestors, and embrace nature.
The National Immigration Administration forecasts around 1.8 million inbound or outbound trips daily during the holiday, up 74.5 percent year on year.
Many travel platforms like Trip.com also saw bookings surge.
“Bookings for round-trip tickets on our platform during the holiday is 30 percent more than that of the same period of 2019, with 70 percent visitors for domestic travel and 30 percent for outbound travel. Also, we has seen a 153 percent year-on-year growth in inbound trip bookings for the holiday,” said Evelyn Wang, PR Director of Trip.com Group.
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