The Ministry of Culture and Tourism made the prediction on Sunday at a press conference, citing data from the China Tourism Academy, which is under the ministry. Online travel companies’ business have recovered to about 40 percent of the-year earlier level, and star-rated hotels’ business had a recovery rate of 91 percent. A hotel owner in Lijiang told the Global Times that all rooms were booked two months ago. Besides, East China’s Shanghai, the coastal city Sanya of South China’s Hainan Province and Chengdu of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province are hot destinations. In the first half of 2020, the operating revenue of network performance businesses nationwide reached 42.73 billion yuan, up 34 percent year-on-year.

Source: Manila Times September 28, 2020 16:18 UTC