Chinese tourists made 115 million trips during the May Day holiday. While short of last year’s figures, the hard-hit tourism industry could be slowly rebounding after the Covid-19 crisis.
The five-day holiday that started on May 1 in China generated tourism revenue of 47.56 billion yuan ($6.7 billion), according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. As the number of visits was down more than 40 percent from the 195 million made during last year’s Labor Day holiday – which was also one day shorter – the revenue also fell over 59 percent.
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