During the Spring Festival holiday, whether you return to your hometown to visit relatives or travel, you must "buy, buy, buy", especially for a place like Hainan that focuses on tourism and shopping, consumption is definitely a hot word.
From the first day of the Spring Festival to Chinese New Year's Eve
Duty-free shopping on outlying islands increased by 4.9 times year-on-year
During the Spring Festival holiday, Hainan's tourism market continued to heat up. How hot is Hainan tourism, let's take a look at a set of data from the Hainan Provincial Department of Tourism, Culture, Radio, Television and Sports:
Hainan Spring Festival holiday on the first day of the travel orders increased by 42% year-on-year, and the number of scenic spot ticket orders increased by 298% year-on-year. The tourist boom is accompanied by a shopping boom, and during the Spring Festival holiday, the passenger flow of duty-free shops on Hainan islands continued to rise.
According to a set of data released by Haikou Customs, from the first day of the Spring Festival to the Chinese New Year's Eve, that is, from January 26 to February 9 this year, a total of 15 days, the duty-free shopping amount on Hainan Islands was 2.26 billion yuan, an increase of 4.9 times over the same period last year, the number of shoppers was 330,000, an increase of 3.7 times, and the number of shopping pieces increased by 4.3 times.
In the first three days of the Spring Festival holiday, the duty-free sales of the outlying islands exceeded 800 million yuan
During this year's Spring Festival holiday, Hainan's major duty-free entities played a combination of "duty-free +" fancy consumption promotion, and created a vibrant and steaming festive atmosphere by holding various activities such as traditional folk performances and New Year lucky draws.
Wang Shuai, Deputy Chief of the First Section of Duty-free Supervision of Haikou Port Customs, under Haikou Customs: Through online remote inspection, as well as accepting inspection applications from enterprises, etc., to ensure the demand of duty-free enterprises for customs in logistics, sales and other links during the Spring Festival holiday.
As a key department to ensure the smooth progress of duty-free shopping on the outlying islands, Wang Shuai and his team are responsible for many responsibilities such as store inspections, supervision of pick-up points, and cracking down on smuggling of duty-free packages on the outlying islands. In order to ensure that duty-free hot-selling goods are sold on the shelves in a timely manner, Haikou Customs implements "5+2" all-weather appointment for customs clearance to ensure the efficient operation of duty-free shops.
Wang Shuai, Deputy Chief of the First Section of Duty-free Supervision of Haikou Port Customs under Haikou Customs: At present, there are five ways to pick up goods for duty-free shopping on Hainan Island, including pick-up in quarantine areas, mail delivery, self-pick-up on returning to the island, and the guarantee and purchase and pick-up that were officially implemented on April 1 last year. In order to serve and protect the needs of passengers, the Customs has carried out 24×7 hours a day to carry out duty-free supervision on outlying islands.
According to the statistics of Haikou Customs, three days before the holiday from the first day to the third day of the Lunar New Year (February 10-12), the duty-free sales on Hainan Island amounted to 881 million yuan, the number of duty-free shoppers was 116,900, and the per capita consumption was 7,538 yuan.