Golden relationship: Chinese tourists still in love after 18 years

 

 

Convenient transportation promotes tourism

Go back to 18 years ago; no one could imagine that one day he or she would take a train would travel at up to 350 km/h. Now the dream is a reality.

According to the report, railways across the country carried 108 million passengers during the holiday, up 9.3 percent year on year.

"With the high-speed trains, more train trips between different places are made," said Lin Yu, a staff working in a local tourism bureau in Fujian province.

The airlines also saw a surge with the number of passengers reaching 9.96 million in the past week, up 11.6 percent year on year, according to railway and civil aviation authorities.

Apart from that, the development of highways and the growing number of private cars, self-drive tour has become a preferred choice by tourists. The data shows around 23.4 billion Chinese chose the self-tour during last year's holidays, accounting for 58.5 percent of the total tourists.

The China Tourism Academy estimated that by the end of the 13th Five Year Plan, the number of self-tour tourists will reach 5.8 billion, accounting for 70 percent of the domestic tourists.

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