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According to statistics released by Sanya Phoenix International Airport,
the airport handled 929,000 passengers in the first 15 days of January this
year, up 15.3 percent year on year.
A report on tourism consumption during the 2023 Chinese New Year, or
Spring Festival, issued by Tongcheng Travel, a market leader in China's online
travel industry, said there has been a significant rise in traveling demand
during the Chinese New Year period this year, especially for medium- and
long-distance trips.
The Spring Festival travel rush officially started on Jan. 7. The
number of ticket orders received by Tongcheng Travel for trains departing on
the Chinese New Year's Eve and a day before surged 31 percent from a year ago,
ranking first in the past three years. Between Jan.1 and 8, the consultation
volume for long-distance travel products scheduled for the Spring Festival
vacation increased nearly 20-fold. Besides, the search volume for hot
destinations, such as Xishuangbanna, Changbai Mountain, Sanya, and Xiamen,
more than doubled from a year ago.
The per-customer transaction of travel products scheduled for the Spring
Festival period has increased by over 70 percent from a year ago, and the
numbers of hotel and tourist site ticket bookings have increased by nearly 20
percent, said Alibaba's travel portal Feizhu. There is also a significant rise
in the distance and duration of trips as well as the number of travel
companions, according to Feizhu. Besides, the bookings for high-end hotels also
improved by nearly 30 percent, and those for rural B&Bs increased by over
100 percent.
Li Donghan, owner of a B&B hotel in Dali, southwest China's Yunnan province,
told People's Daily that all rooms had already been booked for the Spring
Festival period. The man has cooperated with local farmers to sell local
specialties and artware at his B&B.
"There are around 7,000 B&B hotels in Dali. A large
portion of the rooms have been booked for the period from now to the Spring
Festival vacation, and the figure is over 90 percent in some high-end B&B hotels,"
said Li Haizhong, head of the homestay association of Dali.
In a theater near the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum in
Lintong district, Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi province,
a show about the renowned Terracotta Warriors is chased after nowadays.
Qiao Lida, who manages affairs for the show, told People's Daily that
the show was first staged at the end of 2022 and has played to a full house
almost every time. "To meet the demand for tourists, we'll for the first
time keep playing the show during the Spring Festival," Qiao said.
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