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Holiday spending approaches pre-pandemic levels
    2021-09-23  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

A TOTAL of 88.16 million domestic tourist trips were made nationwide during this year’s three-day Mid-Autumn Festival holidays, which drew to a close Tuesday, equivalent to 87.2 percent of the 2019 level, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Tuesday.

The number stood at 105 million in 2019, and 97 million domestic tourists traveled Oct. 1 in 2020, which was also the first day of the Mid-Autumn Festival holidays. The data isn’t quite comparable to 2020, as the Mid-Autumn Festival overlapped with the week-long national holiday last year.

Domestic tourism revenue reached 37.15 billion yuan (US$ 5.38 billion) in 2021, recovering to 78.6 percent of the 2019 Mid-Autumn Festival holiday on a comparable basis.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2021, demand for short-distance travel was higher this year than in 2019, as some local governments asked people not to cross provincial borders or go to areas classed as medium and high-risk for COVID-19, according to a report from online travel platform Trip.com on Tuesday.

Bookings for short-distance trips were 56 percent of all bookings during the holiday, the report said. It was higher than during the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019, the Qingming Festival holidays in April and the Dragon Boat Festival in June this year, according to Trip.com.

Private consumption and spending on services has been the weak spot in China’s recovery from the initial outbreak last year. Retail sales took longer to rebound than the manufacturing sector and has never recovered the growth levels achieved before 2020.

Tourism and spending during this year’s summer holidays were hampered by lockdowns and restrictions across the country to control an outbreak that began in late July. Those measures quashed the infections, but retail sales growth suffered, slowing to 2.5 percent in August compared with a year earlier.

The national statistics bureau said the slowdown in consumption was due to short-term factors such as floods and virus outbreaks.

Recent cases in northeastern China and the outbreak in the southern province of Fujian could affect people’s willingness to travel and spend during the upcoming October national holiday, which would usually be a good period of the industry, analysts say. (SD-Agencies)

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