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Chinese had their fervor for holiday sightseeing cooled by a shortened
vacation as tourist volume slumped nearly a quarter in the past three-day May
Day holiday.
Tourists flock at the sandbeach in Qi
ngdao, East China's Shandong Provicne,
on the first day of the May Day holiday, or Labor Day. [Xinhua]
A total of 8.94 million people visited 119 monitored tourist spots around the
country from May 1 to May 3, 24.45 percent down from the same period last year,
the national office in charge of holiday affairs said on Saturday.
China cut the length of the May Day holiday from a week to three days from
this year as part of its scheme of restructuring national holidays to avoid the
overcrowding spring travel.
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