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Poor weather keeps visitors away as numbers fall at tourist spots

SHANGHAI’S major tourist attractions saw a 24 percent drop in visitor numbers — a total of 5.85 million this year — over the wet and windy National Day holiday compared to the same period in 2014.

The decline was especially marked at outdoor sites, with Century Park in the Pudong New Area hosting 93,900 visitors during the holiday, down 38 percent on last year.

Shanghai Zoo reported a total of 139,400 visitors, nearly 34 percent down on the 2014 figure.

At Jinjiang Amusement Park, admissions were down more than 36 percent to 48,100, while the Happy Valley amusement park saw a 27.3 percent drop with 116,00 visitors.

Visitors to Oriental Land were 17 percent down to 64,500 while Fengjing water town saw a 21 percent drop to 210,600.

At the China Art Museum, the former Chinese pavilion at the 2010 World Expo, visits were down 32.5 percent to 133,000, while the Moon Boat, the former Saudi Arabia pavilion, attracted 28 percent fewer visitors at 18,500.

The number of visitors at Shanghai Science and Technology Museum decreased by 18.4 percent to 139,700, while the Oriental Pearl Tower had 174,000 visitors, some 5 percent fewer than last year.

Between September 30 and October 6, nearly 1.85 million cars entered the city, the authorities said, up 18.81 percent compared to last year, while about 2.3 million cars had gone out, an increase of 36.47 percent.

During the past seven days, more than 2.35 million visitors had arrived in Shanghai by train, 4.8 percent more than last year, while visitors arriving by plane increased by 8.6 percent to 987,000.

Visitors arriving by boat fell 12.5 percent to 10,000 and those by bus fell by 16.13 percent to 520,000.

Shanghai received more than 8.8 million visitors during the holiday, roughly the same as last year, bringing about 7.95 billion yuan (US$1.25 billion) in travel revenue, down 3.7 percent from last year, officials said.

Attendance at this year’s 25-day Shanghai Tourism Festival was around 11 million, the first time the figure had been above 10 million.

Shanghai’s two airports, Hongqiao and Pudong, saw 355,000 passengers leaving and 331,000 people entering between September 30 and October 6 — increases of 12.9 percent and 15.1 percent respectively compared to the same period of last year.

Japan turned out to be the most popular destination for Chinese tourists with 65,000 citizens heading there from Pudong, more than 50 percent more than in the same period of last year.

Thailand was the second most popular, attracting 37,000 Chinese tourists, a 23 percent increase.

Meanwhile, traffic on Shanghai’s roads was heavy yesterday as thousands of residents returned to the city on the last day of the holiday.

The city’s road administration reported congestion on several expressways and highways during the morning. Earlier, a truck rolling over at 6:25am after a collision in a tunnel of G40 heading into the city caused a tailback stretching a kilometer at one point.

The city’s railway terminals were busy with an estimated 400,000 passengers returning yesterday.




 

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