Tourist resort in China's island province sees travel boom
STORY: Tourist resort in China's island province sees travel boom
DATELINE: Feb. 22, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:04
LOCATION: SANYA, China
CATEGORY: SOCIETY
SHOTLIST:
1. various of tourists and tourist sites
2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LI YANJIAO, Marketing director of Sanya Tianya Haijiao Tourist Area
STORYLINE:
Tourists have been swarming to Sanya, a popular holiday resort in south China's island province of Hainan after the country optimized its COVID-19 response.
Figures released by the city government show, during the Spring Festival holiday, Sanya recorded more than 1.6 million tourist trips, 616,400 more than the number for the same period in 2019.
Total tourism revenue stood at 4.87 billion yuan (710 million U.S. dollars), up 25.98 percent year on year.
Even weeks after the Spring Festival holiday, tourist attraction sites, hotels and duty-free shops are still packed with people.
SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LI YANJIAO, Marketing director of Sanya Tianya Haijiao Tourist Area
"Now, we record more than 10,000 tourist
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