Fully booked! China braces for record May Day holiday rush

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BEIJING — China is bracing for a record-high travel rush over the Labour Day holiday, with popular sightseeing spots selling out of tickets and some cities warning would-be visitors away as domestic tourism rebounds after Beijing ended Covid curbs. Authorities are expecting 19 million trips to be made across China’s vast railway network on Saturday (April 29), the first day...

Travellers stand by their luggage at Beijing Capital International Airport, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Beijing, China, Dec 27, 2022.BEIJING — China is bracing for a record-high travel rush over the Labour Day holiday, with popular sightseeing spots selling out of tickets and some cities warning would-be visitors away as domestic tourism rebounds after Beijing ended Covid curbs.

Over the 40-day Lunar New Year travel period in January-February this year, 348 million trips were made in total, or about 8.7 million trips a day on average, according to the National Railway Administration. Booking sites for popular scenic spots, such as Beijing’s Old Summer Palace and the Badaling section of the Great Wall showed they were sold out of tickets for the first few days of the Labour Day holiday, and Trip.com Group said that reservations across its online travel platform had surpassed 2019 levels.

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