China’s domestic tourist trips during Dragon Boat Festival holiday exceeded 2019-level, spending still lower
DATA MACRO
China’s domestic tourist trips during Dragon Boat Festival holiday exceeded 2019-level, spending still lower
DATA MACRO

China’s domestic tourist trips during Dragon Boat Festival holiday exceeded 2019-level, spending still lower

 

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Chinese tourists made 106 million domestic trips during the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday (June 22 – 24), rising by 32.3% from a year earlier and representing 112.8% of the level in the same period in 2019, according to data released by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

The tourists’ spending during the holiday reached 37.3 billion yuan, rising by 44.5% from a year earlier and representing 94.9% of 2019-level, showed the data.

The comparison between the 2023 and 2019 figures were made “according to comparable standards”, the tourism ministry said on its website, without providing details about the metrics.

The Dragon Boat Festival tourism rebound is smaller than that during the five-day May Day holiday, when domestic tourism trips surged 70.8% on year and were 19.1% above those of 2019，with revenues up 128.90% on year and on par with 2019, according to tourism ministry data last month.

Orders for tickets at domestic tourism sites during last week’s holiday doubled from the 2019 level, China’s largest online travel agency, Ctrip, said in a report on Saturday.

Trips across mainland China’s borders averaged 1.32 million a day during the holiday, more than double last year’s level but just 64.6% of the 2019 level, data from the National Immigration Administration showed on Sunday.