City’s 7% increase in holiday visitors
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SHANGHAI received an estimated 4.55 million visitors over the first three days of the National Day holiday, up 7 percent on last year, the city’s tourism administration said yesterday.
However, due to the weather and capacity restrictions, the numbers visiting the city’s major scenic spots during China’s “Golden Week” remained flat overall, the Shanghai Tourism Administration said, while some popular attractions had fewer visitors.
Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower saw 850,000 visitors in the first three days of the holiday, down 7.6 percent on the same period in 2015; nearly 88,000 people visited Shanghai Wild Animal Park, a decline of almost 20 percent; and Shanghai Happy Valley saw just 41,000 visits in the first three days, down nearly 39 percent.
However, Zhujiajiao Water Town had a 175 percent surge in visitor numbers at 127,000 and Shanghai Science & Technology Museum was up 18 percent with 75,000 visitors.
Over the weekend, about 739,000 visitors arrived in the city by train, 12.5 percent more than last year; another 275,000 came by plane, an increase of nearly 7 percent; and some 212,000 passengers came on long-distances buses, a 20.3 percent increase.
Around 687,000 vehicles came into the city via expressways over the past three days, while 1.1 million left Shanghai during the same period.
Shanghai Railway Bureau, which is responsible for train services in the city and the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui, said it sent more than 2.86 million passengers on their way on Saturday, a new record for a single day.
Throughout China there was a marked increase in tourist numbers and spending this year.
On Sunday, some 104 million people visited tourist attractions around the country, an increase of 12.5 percent, according to China National Tourism Administration figures.
Tourist spending was up 16.1 percent year on year to 84.5 billion yuan (US$12.7 billion) on that day alone, the administration said.
In Beijing, the Palace Museum sold 20,000 tickets on site in less than an hour and half yesterday, a record, according to a local newspaper report. Online tickets had already sold out the previous day.
In southwest China’s Sichuan Province, the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding had about 29,400 visitors on Sunday, according to West China City Daily.
Its report added that resort zones in Sichuan had more than 1.5 million visitors on that day, down 4.5 percent, while total ticket revenue increased by nearly 14 percent to hit 49.2 million yuan.
The province’s Jiuzhaigou Valley, a World Heritage site, received more than 40,000 visitors on Sunday, approaching its maximum capacity.
Taishan Mountain, in the central part of east China’s Shandong Province, introduced traffic control measures to handle the holiday traffic, while there were hourlong queues for shuttle buses in the tourist zone, Qilu Evening News said.
However, after Typhoon Meranti, Xiamen in coastal Fujian Province saw even fewer tourists on its beaches than in a normal weekend, ifeng.com said.
The tourism surge nationwide followed a record high in railway travel on Saturday, the first day of the holiday.
The railways carried 14.4 million passengers on Saturday, up 15 percent year on year, according to the China Railway Corporation.
China is expected to ring up 478 billion yuan of tourism income during the holiday week, a 13.5 percent increase year on year, according to a survey by China Tourism Academy and online travel agent Ctrip.
The survey added that nearly 6 million tourists are expected to have traveled abroad during the weeklong holiday, another record. South Korea, Thailand and Japan remain the most popular destinations, while more people are visiting other countries, such as Morocco and Britain, thanks to simplified or relaxed visa policies.
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