Beijing Business Daily (Reporter Guan Zichen Zhang Yiran) On July 15, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism released the domestic tourism data for the first half of 2022. The total number of domestic tourists in the first half of the year was 1.455 billion, down 22.2% from the previous year. Among them, the number of domestic tourists from urban residents was 1.091 billion, a decrease of 16.6%; the number of domestic tourists from rural residents was 364 million, a decrease of 35.4%. In terms of quarters, the number of domestic tourists in the first quarter was 830 million, a year-on-year decrease of 19.0%; the number of domestic tourists in the second quarter was 625 million, a year-on-year decrease of 26.2%.
In terms of consumption, the domestic tourism revenue (total tourism consumption) in the first half of the year was 1.17 trillion yuan, down 28.2% from the previous year. Among them, the tourism consumption of urban residents was 0.94 trillion yuan, down 26.7%; the tourism consumption of rural residents was 0.23 trillion yuan, down 33.8%.
（Beijing Business Daily）