Big data: 'Golden Week' sees flourishing tourism, consumption upgrade

By Zhu Lingqing | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2018-10-08 16:34
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Booming emerging consumption patterns

A Chinese tourist use mobile payment when shopping at La Vallee Village, an outlet mall specializing in the sale of discounted designer brands, in Paris, Oct 1, 2018. [Photo/IC]

New consumption patterns, such as online shopping, online catering, customized tourism, shared accommodation and mobile payment, continued to boom during the holiday.

Chinese shoppers drove a mobile payment trend in the world while traveling overseas. The number of mobile payments in British Bicester Village increased 90 times over the same period of last year, while it increased 70 times and 55 times in the Dotonbori district in Janpan's Osaka and Sydney Airport in Australia, respectively, Chinese online payment platform Alipay said in a report.

Sales of high-end commodities on the food delivery platform also saw growth. In the first three days of the National Day holiday, orders of hairy crabs and wine increased by 16.8 percent and 58.9 percent year-on-year at online food delivery service platform Ele.me.

Data from the Ministry of Commerce also showed that in the first six days of the holiday, the turnover of some e-commerce platforms increased by more than 20 percent year-on-year and the number of orders on some online food delivery platforms increased by more than 50 percent year-on-year.

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