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Spring festival tourism booms in quake-hit Sichuan province
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-02-20 16:51
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CHENGDU: Tourism booms in southwest China's quake-hit Sichuan province during the seven-day Lunar New Year holiday despite sharp temperature fall.
The province received 19.38 million tourist arrivals from February 13 to February 19, a rise of 17 percent year-on-year. The province's tourist income increased 23.8 percent to reach 5.8 billion yuan ($852 million), said an official of Sichuan Tourism Administration.
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Areas in the province stricken by the deadly earthquake in 2008, which killed nearly 70,000 are also seeing a tourist boom. Six seriously hit areas, including Chengdu, Deyang, Mianyang, Guanyuan, Ya'an and Aba Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture, welcomed 8.16 million tourist arrivals during the holiday, a rise of 14.5 percent year-on-year.
The total tourist income rose 26.7 percent year-on-year to reach 2.3 billion yuan ($338 million), the official said.
