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Destinations known | China expects 9 billion domestic trips over Lunar New Year holiday. Indonesia could use some of those travelling Chinese, with its underused roads and airports
- Lunar New Year is a time for families to gather in China and it seems the whole country will be on the move, in the type of migration Indonesia needs
- Meanwhile, the maiden voyage of Icon of the Seas, the world’s biggest cruise ship, signals buoyant times for an industry that’s drawing more young customers
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If we had a dollar for every domestic trip taken in mainland China during the Lunar New Year holiday period, we’d have a tidy 9 billion bucks.
The Great Human Migration is under way, as families reunite to welcome in the Year of the Dragon.
“A record high 9 billion trips are expected to be made within China during the annual 40-day chun yun travel period, the Ministry of Transport said […] with family reunions, sightseeing and leisure activities on the agenda,” reports the South China Morning Post.
Nine billion!
“That would be nearly double the 4.7 billion trips made during the so-called Spring Festival travel rush in 2023 when ultra-strict Covid-19 restrictions were abolished,” says Reuters.
China Central Television reckons that about 80 per cent of those trips will be taken by car, with 480 million journeys by train and 80 million by plane.
Mark Footer joined the Post in 1999, having been the magazine and book buyer for Tower Records in Hong Kong. He started on the business desk before moving, in 2006, to Post Magazine, of which he was editor until 2019. He took on a secondary role as travel editor in 2009.
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