“Due to a great influx of tourists, I was so busy in recent days that I won’t have any day off during the Spring Festival holiday this year,” said a travel guide surnamed Zhang from Lesheng Tianxia International Travel Agency after guiding tourists in the Palace Museum on Feb. 4.
Beijing received about 17.5 million visitors during the Chinese New Year holiday, representing a 37.4% growth year on year. Tourists flocked to the capital city even several days before the holiday started.
People enjoy ice staking in the Shichahai Ice Rink in Beijing on Feb. 4, 2024. [Photo by Liu Jianing/China.org.cn]
“The most exciting experience for me in Beijing was ice skating in the ice rink of Summer Palace, which I had never experienced in my hometown,” said a tourist surnamed Zhang from Guangdong in southern China. “My mom and I got up very early in the morning to avoid queuing for a long time, and we enjoyed ice skating for about three hours.”
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