Ministry of Culture and Tourism: The domestic travel volume in the first quarter was 1.794 billion, an increase of 26.4% year-on-year.

On April 23rd, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism released the data on domestic travel in the first quarter. According to the results of a sample survey on domestic travel, in the first quarter of 2025, there were 1.794 billion domestic trips, an increase of 375 million from the same period of the previous year, an increase of 26.4% year-on-year. Among them, the number of domestic trips by urban residents was 1.318 billion, an increase of 22.4% year-on-year; the number of domestic trips by rural residents was 476 million, an increase of 39.2% year-on-year. In the first quarter of 2025, the total spending of domestic residents on outbound travel was 1.80 trillion yuan, an increase of 280 billion yuan from the same period of the previous year, an increase of 18.6% year-on-year. Among them, the spending on outbound travel by urban residents was 1.48 trillion yuan, an increase of 14.8% year-on-year; the spending on outbound travel by rural residents was 320 billion yuan, an increase of 39.6% year-on-year. This article is compiled from the official website of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, edited by GMTEight: Jiang Yuanhua.