During Spring Festival, customers to the surrounding farmstead doubled on year by year basis, with rising from both the local and the non-local.
Besides, all big supermarkets, traditional, the historical streets and scenic spots are attracting more and more customers, with significant increased consumers from the surround cities. It is suggested that, the drawing near of Shanghai World Expo and urban agglomeration with Shanghai and Hangzhou will contribute much more to Jiaxing s festival and weekend consumption spur.
According to information from tourism sectors, during this spring festival, tourists to scenic spots in Jiaxing witnessed significant rising in those who drove their own cars, and they were mainly self-help tourists from surrounding cities. Wuzhen and Nine-dragon Mountain are the favorite of self-help tourists.
Haining Leather City and Tongxiang Shimao Center received 6000 or so cars almost every day during Spring Festival, with customers going shopping and watching tides. At the same time, the occupancy rate of hotels in Jiaxing remains high. Wang Wei, marketing supervisor of World Expo Hotel in Jiaxshan, a county under Jiaxing, told the reporter guests from Shanghai, Hongzhou and other large cities went up obviously, compared with the same period of last year.
Guests during Spring Festival were mainly walk-in customers. One high official of Huadu Hotel, another hotel in Jiashan, added that it is obvious more and more people of Shanghai come to Jiashan.
According to statistics, during the seven days, Jiaxing has been visited by over 919,000 tourists, rising by 15.22 on year by year basis. The six scenic spots hosted 257,957 tourists totally, and the ticket sales reached 9.35 million, rising by 31.32% on year by year basis.
