People walk along the Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street during the five-day Labour Day holiday in Shanghai, China May 4, 2025. REUTERS/Go Nakamura
Beijing: The five-day May Day holiday – from last Thursday through to yesterday – spurred a tourism boom in the country, with scores of domestic and international tourists swamping destinations big and small to make the most of the break, the last long holiday in the first half of the year.
Encouraging reports have been coming in from local authorities and tourists alike.
