Chinese travelers showed much enthusiasm for short trips, especially back to their hometowns, during the just concluded Tomb Sweeping Day holiday, taking the popularity of tourism during the traditional grave-sweeping activity period to a new high, according to data from industry players.

During the holiday from April 4 to 6, booking volumes of train tickets for people returning to their hometowns to pay their respects to departed family members as well as to visit relatives nearly doubled from the level seen last year, data from Alibaba's travel platform Fliggy showed.

With temperatures rising across the nation, more Chinese tourists undertook visits to appreciate areas filled with blooming flowers and for hiking.The booking volumes of travel products that included mountain climbing surged over five times year-on-year.

Editor Ⅰ: Zhang Wenwen

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