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Weather dampens holiday spirits
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MOST of Shanghai’s major tourist spots saw a sharp decline in visitors on National Day yesterday as the weather stayed cold and windy in the wake of Typhoon Dujuan.
Century Park and Gucun Park opened their gates to just 2,500 and 1,017 people respectively, 89 and 83 percent fewer than last year, according to the Shanghai Tourism Bureau.
The Haiwan National Forest Park, Dongping National Forest Park, Oriental Land, Shanghai Zoo, Fengjing ancient town and Happy Valley theme park saw visitor numbers fall 70 to 80 percent compared with last year, while visitors to Shanghai Wild Animal Park and China Art Museum dropped over 60 percent.
The Oriental Pearl TV Tower and Shanghai Science and Technology Museum saw 10 and 16 percent fewer visitors than last year.
However, the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum and the Moon Boat, previously the Saudi Pavilion at World Expo 2010, were as busy as last year with a slight rise in the number of visitors.
The road administration said the city’s expressways and highways were mostly free of congestion on the first day of the National Day holiday apart from roads to Chongming.
It said queues of cars heading to the island began to build up from 6:30am, with a 6-kilometer tailback at one point.
The number of vehicles on the city’s highways saw an increase of 8 percent compared with last year, while there were 9 percent fewer vehicles on expressways, the bureau said.
But traffic at the city’s boundaries was heavier than last year as 300,000 vehicles headed out of the city to neighboring provinces, an increase of 11 percent over last year.
Air and rail terminals in the city were busy yesterday.
The city’s two airports dealt with 101,000 passengers yesterday, 15 percent more than last year, the city’s Frontier Inspection Station said.
At Pudong International Airport, which took up over 90 percent of the traffic, Chinese nationals accounted for 67 percent of outbound travelers, the station said.
At Hongqiao Airport, over half of the 5,300 outbound tourists were Chinese.
Their preferred destinations this year were Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, followed by Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and island destinations such as Bali and the Maldives.
The city’s railway authority said that its three rail terminals delivered a total of 483,000 tourists yesterday, a 6 percent rise over last year, with Hongqiao Railway Station delivering over half of that number.
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