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Spring Festival sees more tourist trips but lower per-capita spending

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On February 24, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT) released tourism spending figures for the recently concluded nine-day Chinese New Year holiday. The figures reflected a familiar trend: More people traveled, but average spending per trip declined. According to the MCT:

66.22 million touris...