Hotels close to event venue see surge in bookings

Hotels adjacent to the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai), the venue for the CIIE, have seen an unprecedented volume of bookings from overseas visitors heading to the event.

Statistics provided by China's largest online travel agency, Ctrip, shows that the number of bookings made on its platform by overseas visitors for the event period, from Nov 4 to 10, has doubled on a month-on-month basis, marking a new record.

More than 2,800 enterprises from over 130 countries and regions have signed up for the CIIE, the first-ever Chinese fair focusing exclusively on imported goods and services. Visitors from Australia make up the majority of the hotel bookings, followed by those from Japan, the United States, South Korea and New Zealand.