WEIHAI receives 1.38 million tourists during the National Day
2009-10-9 10:29:00  

The statistics show that Weihai receives 1.38 million tourists during National Day & Mid-autumn Festival Holiday, up 30.1% compared with the same period of last year. The tourism revenue generated reached 1.13 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 32.7%.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on October 3, overlapped with the country's National Day holiday, and people could spend eight days for holiday.

The number of overnight tourists was 920 thousand, and one-day-tour tourists reached 460 thousand, up 30.2% and 29.9% over the same period of last year. The per capita spending was RMB 821 during the golden week, an increase of 2% over the previous year.

The number of visitors from our own province was 780 thousand, and visitors from outside Shandong province were 600 thousand, increasing by 30.2% and 29.9%, respectively.

Weihai’s transportation system served 640,000 passengers during this year’s 8-day-long National Day holiday.

The highway system carried about 535,000 passengers during the holiday, up 1.34% year on year. The railway line handled 66,000 passengers; the airline carried 18,000 passengers; and the ships carried about 21,000 persons.

In addition, Weihai trading & business circulation industry saw a 23% increase in sales to 1.48 billion yuan during National Day & Mid-autumn Festival Holiday, according to Weihai Municipal Trade Office.

More than 40,000 types of commodities with the estimated value of 2.5 billion yuan were put on the market for celebrating the festival. Non-staple food enterprises guaranteed the supply of meat, egg, vegetable and milk etc. in pursuit of stable price.

Most of commercial and trade circulation enterprises presented various promotion events during the golden week.

The sales of clothing rose by 33% over the same period of last year, reaching 55 million yuan; and household appliances saw a 28% increase in sales to RMB 68 million during the eight days.

The catering industries achieved business income of RMB 260 million, a year-on-year increase of 24%.