January 24, 2023

China's tourism industry sees a strong rebound in both domestic and overseas market, with numbers of visitors to some major tourist sites reaching a peak since the epidemic, as the country celebrates the Chinese Spring Festival holidays lasting from January 21 to 27, the first long holiday since the optimized epidemic control and the reopening for traveling.

Popular tourist destinations of the season, ranging from Harbin in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province to Sanya, South China's Hainan Province, are all thronging with visitors, which experts said it shows China's consumption capacity in the tourism industry and paves the way for a solid recovery in a wider range of industries for the rest of this year.

In the first three days of the Spring Festival holidays, bookings for domestic hotel and scenic spots increased by 56 percent and 79 percent year-on-year while domestic air ticket bookings rose by 30 percent, according to the data that online travel agency Tongcheng Travel sent to the Global Times on Tuesday. 

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