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CHINA is in the middle of a rural tourism boom amid the COVID-19 pandemic, CNN reported Tuesday. Chinese-owned Trip.com, one of the world’s largest online travel agencies, said that by March 2021, rural tourism trips in China had increased by more than 300 percent year on year, CNN said in a report. In recent days, Chinese tourists are heading not just to domestic historic and natural wonders — some are looking for something a bit different, like spending a day picking mulberries, watching rice grow, fishing by the seaside and eating home-grown food, the report said. The rapid growth in...
