[Explanation] Haikou Customs notified on January 4 that during the "New Year's Day" period from January 1 to 3, 2021, the customs supervised the sale of 669,000 duty-free items on outlying islands, 76,000 shoppers, and sales of 540 million yuan, year-on-year From January 1st to 3rd of 2020, the increase was 200%, 80.9% and 195.16% respectively, setting a new record for the "New Year's Day" holiday in the past years.
According to the Hainan tourism industry, the sales data of duty-free shopping in Hainan's outlying islands on "New Year's Day" shows that people and tourists love and recognize the duty-free shops and their duty-free products in Hainan's outlying islands.
Hainan’s outlying island duty-free shopping market will further promote the development of Hainan’s tourism in 2021. At present, many travel agencies in Hainan have incorporated "visiting duty-free shops" into their product designs to attract more tourists.
[Concurrent] Sun Xiangtao, Deputy Secretary-General of Haikou Travel Agency Association
With the increase in the number of duty-free shops in 2021 and the richer categories of duty-free goods, it will be more convenient for tourists to save time and effort to purchase duty-free goods, which will affect the further increase of our customer base.
With the increase in the number of duty-free shops, the degree of close cooperation between our travel agencies and duty-free shops has also increased. In the past few days, some of our travel agencies in Haikou have used duty-free shops as product highlights, as packaging and building, basically currently in Hainan Conventional group tour products all contain the attraction of duty-free shops.
Reporter Li Yufan Hainan Comprehensive Report
Editor in charge: [Liu Xian]