SOURCE / ECONOMY By Global Times Published: Feb 15, 2021 02:52 PM
Visitors queue up at Xishan Ski Resort in Beijing on Monday, Photo: Chi Jingyi
Demand for travel in scenic spots, the number of hotel room bookings and the domestic movie box office has kept growing significantly in China as the Spring Festival holiday passes the halfway mark, indicating a rapid recovery of China’s service sector.
As of Sunday, also the first four days of the Chinese New Year holidays, the number of domestic scenic spot ticket bookings increased by 105 percent from the previous week, and the number of scenic spot ticket bookings in 127 cities across the country has more than doubled, data from online tourism platform Qunar.com showed, according to a report from thepaper.com.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) The Walt Disney Company on Thursday reported a revenue of 16.24 billion U.S. dollars for its fiscal first quarter of 2021, down 22 percent year over year as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Diluted earnings per share (EPS) from continuing operations for the quarter decreased 98 percent to 0.02 dollars from 1.17 dollars in the prior-year quarter. Excluding certain items affecting comparability, diluted EPS for the quarter decreased 79 percent to 0.32 dollars from 1.53 dollars in the prior-year quarter, according to a Disney press release.
The U.S. entertainment giant noted that results in the quarter ended Jan. 2, 2021 were adversely impacted by the novel coronavirus.