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195m domestic tourist trips made during holiday
    2019-05-06  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

THE country saw a total of 195 million domestic tourist trips made during the four-day May Day holiday, up 13.7 percent from last year, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Tourism revenue reached 117.67 billion yuan (US$17.48 billion) during the holiday which lasted from Wednesday to Saturday, up 16.1 percent, according to the ministry.

Statistics show that family trips have become the highlights of the tourism sector, boosting cultural, recreation and catering consumption.

Tourists stay an average of 2.25 days at their destinations, according to the ministry.

Major parks in Beijing received 2.44 million visitors during the holiday, the municipal park administration center said yesterday.

The peak occurred Thursday, with more than 720,000 daily visitors, the center said.

The Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven Park and Beijing Zoo were reported as the most popular destinations.

Also, according to the Ministry of Public Security on Saturday, a total of 650,000 traffic police officers were dispatched to ensure safe and smooth traffic in China during the holiday.

A total of 100,000 police vehicles, more than 4,600 traffic police stations and over 10,000 provisional sentries handled 1.41 million traffic violations across the country, keeping traffic in good order, according to the ministry.

But not all trips were as smooth as passengers expected.

China Railway Corp. (CRC), the country’s top railway operator, apologized Saturday for allowing passengers who bought short-distance tickets to travel farther, which led to overloading on some of the trains during the May Day holiday, with some passengers who bought tickets unable to get on the trains.

The national railway operator said it will open more trains in districts where there are transport capacity shortages during holidays while also working with relevant departments to include the behavior of “buying short and traveling long” into Chinese citizens’ credit record.

The comment comes after some netizens in Zibo, East China’s Shandong Province and Nanjing, capital of East China’s Jiangsu Province, complained on China’s social media platforms that they had bought train tickets to their hometowns in advance but were told by railway employees that they could not board the trains because of overloading, as some passengers who bought short-distance tickets paid for replacement tickets after getting on the train.

(Global Times, Xinhua)

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