While Harbin, capital of Northeast China’s Heilongjiang province, has been the country’s most popular destination for ice and snow tourism this winter, neighboring Jilin province has also welcomed more tourists and seen revenue from tourism grow.
As the Spring Festival holiday approached, Changchun, Jilin’s provincial capital, saw holiday bookings surge.
More than two weeks before the start of the holiday, online travel platform Trip.com said hotel bookings were up more than 1,000 percent compared to the same period last year, and ticket bookings were up 727 percent.
According to data from the Ministry of Culture and tourism, Jilin received more than 6 million domestic tourists during the New Year holiday period in January, over four times as many than during the same holiday period a year earlier, while…