CCTV News: On January 22, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism released the domestic tourism data for 2024. According to the statistical results of the domestic tourism sampling survey, in 2024, the number of domestic tourists was 5.615 billion, an increase of 724 million over the same period last year, an increase of 14.8% year-on-year. Among them, the number of domestic tourists from urban residents was 4.37 billion, an increase of 16.3% year-on-year; the number of domestic tourists from rural residents was 1.245 billion, an increase of 9.9% year-on-year. In 2024, the total spending of domestic tourists on travel was 5.75 trillion yuan, an increase of 0.84 trillion yuan over the previous year, an increase of 17.1% year-on-year. Among them, urban residents spent 4.93 trillion yuan on travel, an increase of 18.0% year-on-year; rural residents spent 0.83 trillion yuan on travel, an increase of 12.2% year-on-year.
