Chinese airlines carried more than 9.84 million passengers during the week-long Chinese New Year holiday, according to preliminary data from Civil Aviation Administration of China.
Throughout the seven-day holiday, major tourism sites across the country recorded 344 million trips, demonstrating a 13.8% surge YoY, according to data China National Tourism Administration (CNTA).
China received 258.1 million tourists made during the first four days of the Chinese New Year holiday, which started Friday, up 14.2% YoY, reported state-run Xinhua news agency.
China witnessed a 10.4% surge in tourist numbers on the first day of the week-long Lunar New Year holiday, official data showed on January 28.
More than half of the Chinese outbound travelers are traveling with family during this Lunar New Year holiday, according to data from ForwardKeys.
Currently only 0.4% of the Chinese people are passionate skiers while in central and north Europe, the number is around 25%, according to data from Germany-based sport news outlet ISPO.
Baidu search engine finds that the number of art-related keywords, such as "Japan" and "art" rose 2.8-fold in 2016, according to Nikkei.
High hotel prices and arduous visa process in Canada are hurdles to increasing the number of Chinese tourists, according to Tourism Industry Association of Canada.