Tourists snoozing in loos as travel boom in China fuels mass crowds

Tourists sleeping in a toilet in Anhui province’s Huangshan mountain range. -SCREENGRAB FROM WEIBO

BEIJING (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Travellers in China have taken to sleeping in toilets and restaurants as the surge in “revenge travel” over the Labour Day break leaves hotels and tourist hotspots struggling to cope with the crush of tourists.

A widely circulated video on Chinese social media showed domestic tourists snoozing shoulder-to-shoulder in a public toilet near one of the summits of Huangshan in Anhui province, one of China’s most popular tourist destinations.