Box Office, Tourism Soar During Chinese October Holiday

China saw big increases in both tourism and box-office sales during the country’s early-October holidays, with numbers for both rising significantly from the same period last year.

China received 705 million visitors during the eight-day holiday — which ended Sunday and included both National Day and the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Tourist numbers for the first seven days were up 11.9% from a year earlier, when the holiday lasted only a week in total, according to the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA).