People visit Yuyuan Garden, a historical tourist site in Shanghai, on Feb 6, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA)
BEIJING – A total of 256 million domestic tourist trips were made during China's weeklong Spring Festival holiday ending on Feb 17, up 15.7 percent year on year, said the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Thursday.
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The figure has recovered to 75.3 percent of pre-epidemic levels, the ministry added.
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The total domestic tourism revenue reached 301.1 billion yuan (US$46.7 billion), up 8.2 percent from the same period in 2020 and equal to 58.6 percent of pre-COVID-19 levels.