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Bangkok Post – China’s Spring Festival travel spending beats pre-Covid levels

Tourists along the Tsim Sha Tsui promenade during the Lunar New Year holiday in Hong Kong, China, on Feb 12, 2024 (Bloomberg photo)

BEIJING: Tourism revenues in China during the Lunar New Year holidays that ended on Saturday surged by 47.3% year-on-year thanks to a domestic travel boom amid a longer-than-usual break, official data showed on Sunday.

The data may offer temporary relief to policymakers as the world’s second-largest economy has been facing deflationary…

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