Tourists enjoy the scenery in Hongcun village of Yixian county, Huangshan city, East China's Anhui province, April 17, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]

Travel agencies and tourism experts are confident about the tourism market's performance in the upcoming May Day holiday, or the International Workers' Day holiday, with both domestic and outbound tourism visits projected to boom during the period.

Recent figures unveiled by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism show that in first three months, the number of domestic tourism visits reached almost 1.8 billion, up by 26.4 percent year-on-year. These domestic tourism travels generated tourism-related consumption of about 1.8 trillion yuan ($250 billion) with a year-on-year growth of 18.6 percent.

Source: China Daily
Editor: Lyu Yun