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A total of 140.47 million trips were made in China during the three-day Dragon Boat Festival, up 89.1 percent from a year earlier but down 22.8 percent from the pre-COVID levels of 2019, official broadcaster CCTV said on its website.
Tourism data during the June 22-24 holiday is being closely watched as a barometer of China’s economic health, with Beijing readying fresh stimulus to revive a fading post-COVID recovery.
The number of railway trips jumped 150.2 percent from a year earlier to 43.26 million, CCTV reported, citing the Ministry of Transport. That’s just 12.8 percent higher than during the same period of 2019, it said.
Road travel rose 64.4 percent year-on-year to 89.34 million, but was down 33.3 percent from the same period in pre-COVID 2019.
Trips using ships also fell sharply from 2019, down 43.6 percent to 2.53 million, though nearly doubling from a year ago.
Airborne trips totalled 5.34 million, surging 287 percent from a year earlier, but up just 3 percent from 2019, according to CCTV.
Category: China
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