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Holiday revives tourism in quake-hit Sichuan
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-02-01 19:01 CHENGDU -- Tourism in southwest China's quake-hit Sichuan Province is showing signs of revival at the end of the week-long Lunar New Year holiday.
The provincial tourism office on Sunday announced 16.5 million tourist visits in the holiday, which ended Saturday, up 21.9 percent from the Spring Festival week last year.
The park contains the ruins of Donghekou Village, where all but 300 of more than 1,400 villagers failed to survive a devastating landslide triggered by the earthquake. Earthquake tours in the county attracted more than 100,000 visitors in the holiday, which helped revive small businesses, said a tourist office official. Many tourists visited small restaurants set up by survivors in temporary settlements in Beichuan County, one of the worst affected areas, and were drawn to countryside tours to see farmhouses built after the earthquake. |
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