During the new year’s Day holiday in 2022, duty-free shopping on Hainan’s outlying islands is popular and has become a highlight of holiday tourism.
During the new year’s Day holiday, the major duty-free stores in Hainan launched a variety of preferential and promotional activities, which attracted more tourists to enter the store for consumption. Some consumers even lined up in front of the counter to pay the bill.
According to the data of Haikou customs, on January 1, the amount of duty-free shopping on Hainan outlying islands reached 162 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 29%, an increase of 129% compared with the same period in 2020; The number of duty-free shoppers was 18200, a year-on-year increase of 9.9%, an increase of 21% compared with the same period in 2020; The per capita consumption was 8917 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.3%, an increase of 89.4% compared with the same period in 2020.
The Hainan Provincial Department of Commerce announced on the 1st that following the year-on-year doubling of tax-free sales on Hainan’s outlying islands in 2020, tax-free sales on Hainan’s outlying islands maintained a rapid growth trend in 2021, with a total sales of 10 outlying island duty-free stores of 60.173 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 84%.
According to the plan of building an international tourism consumption center in the 14th five year plan of Hainan Province, Hainan will further improve the tax-free business facility environment, establish tax-free industry associations, and improve the international procurement capacity of tax-free business entities in Hainan.
