Back in business: Visitors gathering near a statue of Donald Duck outside Shanghai Disneyland Park during the May Day holidays. — Bloomberg
BEIJING: As a signal that the country’s tourism market is experiencing a strong recovery, China is estimated to have seen more than double the number of passenger trips made on the first day of the May Day holiday compared to a year earlier.
The Ministry of Transport’s preliminary estimate showed that the country handled 56.4 million passenger trips on Saturday as the five-day May Day holiday kicked off, up 111.5% year-on-year.
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