China News Service, Haikou, February 14 (Reporter Wang Ziqian) Hainan will see a surge in tourists visiting the island during the 2024 Spring Festival holiday, driving duty-free sales on outlying islands to boom. According to Haikou Customs statistics on the 14th, in the four days before the holiday (February 10 to 13), the customs supervised a total of 1.217 billion yuan in duty-free shopping on outlying islands, with 156,000 duty-free shoppers and per capita consumption of 7,802 yuan.
On February 12, the passenger flow at CDF Sanya International Duty Free City was booming. Photo by China News Service reporter Luo Yunfei
The Spring Festival is the sales peak for duty-free sales on Hainan Islands. During the 2023 Spring Festival holiday, Haikou Customs supervised a total of 1.56 billion yuan in duty-free shopping on outlying islands. Just halfway through this year's Spring Festival holiday, it had already reached nearly 80% of last year's entire holiday sales.
During the Spring Festival, Haikou and Sanya issued a total of nearly 30 million yuan in offshore island duty-free consumption coupons, which can be used in conjunction with in-store discounts.
The 12 outlying island duty-free shops in Hainan also launched a variety of promotional activities. Dragon lanterns to celebrate the New Year, classical dance parades, God of Wealth parades... cdf Haikou International Duty Free City has attracted many consumers through the novel way of holding New Year temple fairs.
The reporter saw that the store’s popular perfume counter was crowded and there was a long queue at the checkout counter. “I bought my favorite suit at a 40% discount, and I can also use the government tax-free consumption coupons, which is very cost-effective.” Ms. He, a tourist from Sichuan, said that now when traveling in Hainan, visiting duty-free shops has become a must. “Not only is the price cheap, but you can also buy it instantly. Pick up immediately after purchase, and use it as soon as you buy it.”
At Sanya Hailv Duty Free City, there are long queues of self-driving cars waiting to enter outside the parking lot. Yang Yiqian, sales manager of the operation and management department of Sanya Hailv Duty Free City, said that the store's customer traffic has continued to rise since the beginning of this month, and the customer traffic during this year's Spring Festival is higher than last year. The store launches activities such as full-site discounts as low as 30% off, instant discounts on bank discounts, and no-threshold coupons. (over)