The pleasant spring weather has helped give a boost to tourism in Nanjing over the Tombsweeping Festival that has just concluded, with people flocking to the city’s scenic spots in their droves.
After closing at the end of the holiday yesterday evening, visitors to Nanjing’s many and varied attractions had totalled 2,163,900, reports the Yangtze Evening News.
Of this total, Nanjing’s seven major tourist hot spots reported a total of 1,456,600 visitors over the 3-day Tombsweeping Festival, broken down as follows.
- Confucius Temple; 660,000 visitors
- Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum; 395,000 visitors
- Xuanwu Lake; 226,700 visitors
- Presidential Palace; 80,600 visitors
- Yuhuatai; 55,000 visitors
- Niushou Mountain Cultural and Tourist Area; 28,800 visitors
- Grand Bao’en Temple Ruins Park (Porcelain Pagoda); 10,500 visitors
The data was obtained from the Nanjing Municipal Tourism Commission.
