China reported growth in trips and travel spending over the three-day Dragon Boat Festival, beating last year’s holiday figures as well as those from pre-pandemic 2019, despite the nation’s prolonged spell of an uneven economic recovery.
People in China made 110 million trips from Saturday through Monday, up 6.3 per cent, year on year, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The travellers spent 40.35 billion yuan (US$5.56 billion), up 8.1 per cent over the same holiday last year.
“Overall, the domestic culture and tourism markets are stable and orderly,” the ministry said on Monday in announcing the figures online.
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