Travel Returns to China

Consumers are out and about during Golden Week. Happi Staff 10.10.20 Strict lockdown measures can do wonders to curb a pandemic. That’s the lesson out of China, which recorded a jump in travel during the all-important Golden Week, which celebrates the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. The holiday provided a big lift to China’s travel retail business. According to estimates, nearly 640 million people traveled during the holiday week, which went a day longer than normal because Golden Week came right on the heels of the Mid-Autumn Festival. When it is all added up, revelers spent…