{"id":100666,"date":"2017-05-02T02:41:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T06:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=100666"},"modified":"2017-05-02T02:41:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T06:41:58","slug":"china-sees-tourism-boom-during-may-day-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/02\/china-sees-tourism-boom-during-may-day-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"China sees tourism boom during May Day holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_100669\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100669\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/129041593_a91921f78c_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100669\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/129041593_a91921f78c_z.jpg\" alt=\"The tourism boom came as China tries to wean its economy off over-reliance on exports and heavy industries, and shift to a growth model that draws strength from consumption, innovation and service sector. (Photo: Jim G\/ Flickr)\" width=\"500\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/129041593_a91921f78c_z.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/129041593_a91921f78c_z-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The tourism boom came as China tries to wean its economy off over-reliance on exports and heavy industries, and shift to a growth model that draws strength from consumption, innovation and service sector. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jimg944\">Jim G\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BEIJING \u2013China saw a tourism boom during the three-day May Day holiday, a sign of the country&#8217;s booming tourism industry, official data showed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s tourism industry raked in 79.1 billion yuan (11.5 billion U.S. dollars) in revenue during the holiday, up 16.2 percent from a year earlier, according to data from the National Tourism Administration.<\/p>\n<p>During the holiday that ended on Monday, tourist destinations across China received a total of 134 million tourists, a year-on-year increase of 14.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The tourism boom came as China tries to wean its economy off over-reliance on exports and heavy industries, and shift to a growth model that draws strength from consumption, innovation and service sector.<\/p>\n<p>The tourism industry is considered a driver to growth as it boosts profitability in sectors ranging from hotel, transportation to catering.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING \u2013China saw a tourism boom during the three-day May Day holiday, a sign of the country&#8217;s booming tourism industry, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":100669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,79,17],"tags":[420,18587,336,337],"class_list":["post-100666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-travel","category-news-w","tag-china","tag-may-day-holiday","tag-tourism","tag-travel-2","mauthors-xinhua-via-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}