More than 2.79 million tourists visited Shanghai during the week-long Spring Festival holiday which began on Feb. 18, a year-on-year increase of 12.98 percent.

The huge influx of tourists brought the east China municipality 2.13 billion yuan (274 million U.S. dollars) in tourism revenue from the Golden Week, sources from Shanghai Municipal Holiday Affairs Office said.

China extended the duration of the traditional Spring Festival or Chinese lunar New Year, May Day and National Day holidays to seven days each in 1999, creating three Golden Weeks for tourism.

Shanghai, which is situated at the estuary of the Yangtze River, is the financial and commercial hub of China. Tourists traveled to the city by highway, railway, air, sea or inland waterways.

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