China’s tourism revenue over Dragon Boat Festival soars nearly 45%

Monday, June 26, 2023

China’s revenue from domestic tourism over the Dragon Boat Festival holiday jumped 44.5 percent compared with last year.

Income from tourism hit CNY37.3 billion (USD5.2 billion) between June 22 and June 24, recovering to 95 percent of the same period in 2019, before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, according to data from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism released yesterday.

Over the three-day break, 106 million domestic trips were made, up 32.3 percent from a year earlier and reaching 113 percent of the pre-pandemic level, the data showed.

The Dragon Boat Festival is an indicator of the tourism market during the summer vacation, said Feng Rao, head of the Mafengwo Tourism Research Institute.

Given the over 100 million travellers during the Dragon Boat Festival, tourism is expected to boom during the summer vacation, entering a new phase of structural recovery, Feng noted.

Hotel bookings, scenic spot tickets, and traffic all surpassed the figures in the same period of 2019 this year’s holiday, according to statistics from travel agencies.

Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand, Singapore, and Malaysia, remained the most popular outbound travel destination, data from travel platforms showed

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