Source: CCTV.com
02-13-2009 09:04
In a pleasant surprise for the Chinese travel industry, the golden season hasn't faded away with the end of the Spring Festival holiday. From the tropical island of Hainan to the natural beauty of Qinghai, travelers from home and abroad are still enjoying their vacations.
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| Hainan Island has welcomed its first ever golden month of travel. |
Forget about the Spring Festival golden week, Hainan Island has welcomed its first ever golden month of travel! The star-rated hotels in Sanya have maintained high occupancy rates above 85-percent. A sign of shifting trends, most travelers here didn't come as part of a group but as individual tourists from China and abroad.
Statistics show that the average spending per tourist in Sanya has been over one-thousand yuan a day since the start of the Lunar New Year in late January.
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| In southern Hunan province, the charming beauty of Fenghuang city has brought a big increase in tourism. |
In southern Hunan province, the charming beauty of Fenghuang city has brought a big increase in tourism. Every day, more than 8-thousand cars are arriving from around China, setting a new record.


