A glance at the data behind travel and spending that finally reached pre-pandemic heights during China’s holiday season
China’s travel and tourism finally roared back to pre-pandemic levels during the recently concluded Lunar New Year holiday season. Tourists celebrated the Year of the Dragon by taking 474 million domestic trips over the past two weeks.
People headed across the country from the frozen Harbin to the beaches of Sanya, or went abroad to Singapore (only recently became visa-free for Chinese travelers) and beyond for a well-earned break. The boom in spending has also given a welcome lift to the economy.
Here are some of the key data points from China’s Lunar New Year travel rush:
Roman Kierst is a staff writer and editor at The World of Chinese based in Beijing but much more at home in Chengdu, where his own China story first began as a high school exchange student in 2006. Likes to pick up a film camera occasionally to take pictures of (mostly) old places.
