Contestants take part in a dragon boat race on Songhua River in Jilin City, northeast China’s Jilin Province, June 10, 2024. (Xinhua/Yan Linyun) BEIJING, June 11 (Xinhua)– With rising journeys and tourist costs, China’s simply completed Dragon Boat Festival vacation showed a robust customer market and constant financial healing. Here are some noteworthy realities and figures about the three-day vacation ending Monday. Some 110 million domestic traveler journeys were made throughout the duration, up 6.3 percent year on year. The associated intake amounted to 40.35 billion yuan (about 5.67 billion U.S. dollars), up 8.1 percent, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Information from the Ministry of Transport revealed almost 637.62 million inter-regional guest traffic were seen throughout the vacation, 9.4 percent greater than that of in 2015 and 16.6 percent greater than pre-pandemic 2019. Amongst them, 583.11 million journeys were made on roadway, making the biggest contribution to the overall guest traffic. Travelers gravitated towards joyful occasions. Cities understood for dragon boat races, consisting of south China’s Foshan City and main China’s Yueyang City, saw rising vehicle rental orders and travel orders due to visitor inflows, stated Ctrip, an online travel bureau. Cultural tourist attractions discovered favor in more travelers throughout the previous vacation. Travel orders were up considerably in Xianyang City, the capital city of the ancient Qin Dynasty, Deyang City, which boasts the Sanxingdui Ruins, an antiques website going back to 4,500 years to 3,000 years earlier, and Jingdezhen City, considered China’s “porcelain capital,” according to Ctrip. The conventional celebration likewise tempted abroad travelers. The variety of incoming journeys purchased on the Ctrip platform skyrocketed 115 percent from a year back, with the majority of travelers from the United States, followed by Britain and Australia. The National Immigration Administration stated foreign nationals made 507,000 entry and exit journeys in China in the duration, up 57 percent year on year. The vacation experienced more powerful customer belief as the domestic prospective continued to be released. Information from Meituan, a leading e-commerce platform, revealed day-to-day online service offers, such as food shipment and meal voucher purchases, leapt 69 percent throughout the vacation from the very same duration in 2019. Meituan users in south China’s Guangdong Province made the most orders in worth, followed by Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The Dragon Boat Festival, likewise called Duanwu Festival, is commemorated on the 5th day of the 5th month of the Chinese lunar calendar, which fell on Monday this year. It celebrates Chinese popular patriotic poet Qu Yuan, who was likewise a minister of the State of Chu throughout the Warring States Period (475 B.C.-221 B.C.). The dragon boat race is among lots of customs of this celebration and it has actually been turned into a sport. ■
China’s robust tourist, intake in Dragon Boat Festival vacation
