Shanghai braces for the tourist flood this Mid-Autumn Festival

What do you get when 1.3 billion people get as much as 16 days off at the same time? Let?s just say you should avoid the train stations.

With October holiday almost here, the China Tourism Academy released its holiday forecast, saying that 210 million tourists will travel domestically during the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, with a big bump for Shanghai tourism. That?s on top of the number of people who will visit Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao, as well as people taking the holiday to travel abroad.

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