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China's capital city Beijing received 18,000 tourists from abroad in May, a year-on-year drop of 93.9 percent, said the Statistics Bureau of Beijing Wednesday.
Among the 18,000 tourists from overseas, 15,000 were foreigners, down 94.1 percent from last May, the bureau said.
Tourist arrivals from abroad for the first five months of the year numbered 694,000, a year-on-year decline of 37.3 percent due to the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Of these, 583,000 held foreign passports, representing a 37.8 percent drop.
Based on a survey of 480 hotels in Beijing, about 76,000 domestic tourists visited here in May, a year-on-year drop of 89.5percent, and for the first five months, they numbered 2.6 million, down 17.5 percent.
(People's Daily June 12, 2003)
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