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In the second quarter of 2025, approximately *** billion domestic tourist trips were made in China, exceeding the figure by around *** million from the same period in 2024, i.e. growing by approximately ** ±è±ð°ù³¦±ð²Ô³Ù.Ìý

Domestic travel during the pandemic

Since the entire city of Wuhan was locked down during the initial outbreak of the pandemic in late 2019, China continued with stringent pandemic policies to minimize case numbers, implementing mass testing, contact tracing apps, mandatory quarantine, and imposed citywide lockdowns.
This period witnessed a near cessation of international travel, and the annual number of domestic trips declined to around **** of what it was before the pandemic. However, with increasing cases and public dissent against the government's restrictive containment measures, China abandoned its zero-COVID policy and began to ease pandemic regulations in December 2022.

Post-pandemic domestic tourism

During the post-pandemic recovery, China’s tourism sector showed a robust resurgence. In early 2023, the domestic tourist market has returned to the pre-pandemic levels, reporting a total revenue of over *** billion yuan. In the first half of 2025, the domestic tourism revenue in China exceeded *** trillion yuan, ** percent of which was a contribution of the traveling urban residents.Ìý