AS the Dragon Boat Festival draws closer, the Chinese tourism market is seeing a booming trend, with searches for holiday travel surging on domestic tourism platform Mafengwo amid the country’s stepped-up efforts in bolstering cultural tourism.
The online tourism agency reported a 166-percent week-on-week surge in searches ahead of the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanwu Festival. The three-day holidays will last from June 8 to 10.