Visitors queue up at Xishan Ski Resort in Beijing on Monday, Photo: Chi Jingyi
Demand for travel in scenic spots, the number of hotel room bookings and the domestic movie box office has kept growing significantly in China as the Spring Festival holiday passes the halfway mark, indicating a rapid recovery of China’s service sector.
As of Sunday, also the first four days of the Chinese New Year holidays, the number of domestic scenic spot ticket bookings increased by 105 percent from the previous week, and the number of scenic spot ticket bookings in 127 cities across the country has more than doubled, data from online tourism platform Qunar.com showed, according to a report from thepaper.com.
Among the newly released data, the…