Guangdong saw a strong tourism surge during China's week-long National Day holiday, with the southern Chinese province recording 62.79 million tourist visits and 58.44 billion yuan (about USD 8.2 billion) in tourism spending, according to preliminary figures released by the Department of Culture and Tourism of Guangdong Province on October 7. On an average daily basis, tourist visits increased 10.1 percent from a year earlier, while tourism spending rose 8.9 percent.  

The holiday, which ran from October 1 to October 7, saw particularly strong growth in visitors arriving from outside Guangdong. The province received an estimated 9.95 million visitors from outside the province, up 21.6 percent year on year.  

Source: South
Editor: Lyu Yun