Hainan's offshore islands duty-free shopping exceeded 6.6 billion yuan during the Spring Festival travel rush

On February 23, Haikou customs released the latest statistics, during the Spring Festival in February (from January 14 to 22) customs supervision total offshore islands duty-free shopping amount is 6.61 billion yuan, duty-free shopping number 818000 person-time, shopping number 5.642 million.

Sanya Phoenix International Airport handled more than 90,000 passengers in a single day during the Spring Festival travel rush, a record high. Various duty-free shops seize the opportunity and they launch promotional activities one after another. All kinds of cosmetics, clothing, watches, bags and other duty-free goods neatly arranged. The queue of passengers in front of the counter and the "shopping basket" are full, showing the vitality of the tourism market. "In order to ensure high-quality services during the Spring Festival, we launched preferential activities such as full gifts and double points before the Spring Festival holiday. We have stocked up the best-selling duty-free products, and strive to make every consumer feel the enthusiasm of Hainan and enjoy the benefits of offshore islands duty-free policy." Sanya Phoenix Airport duty-free shop responsible person Ye Rong said.

In the Spring Festival return stage, Haikou new port usher in the peak of passenger flow, and the adjacent cdf Haikou International Duty-free City is very popular. In the duty-free city to choose duty-free goods in an endless stream of tourists, some popular counters are lined up in front of a long line. cdf Haikou International Duty-free City and many other duty-free shops have increased their promotional efforts, carefully prepared a series of special activities such as folk performances and New Year lottery, attracting a large number of tourists to come to buy their favorite goods, and the consumption atmosphere is warm and strong.

According to the relevant person in charge of Haikou Customs, in order to shorten the distribution time of duty-free goods, the customs actively supports enterprises to use drones to distribute duty-free goods on offshore islands and improve distribution efficiency. At the same time, in view of the special circumstances that may occur in the peak period of entering and leaving the island, such as passengers' detention, delay, and change of the island port, they have formulated temporary protection plans in advance, and flexibly protect passengers' delivery of goods by postal service, return to the island to pick up goods, purchase and pick up goods, guarantee and other delivery methods. In the next step, the Customs will continue to optimize regulatory services, make every effort to maintain market stability and order, provide tourists with a more convenient and high-quality shopping experience, and help the continuous prosperity and development of the duty-free market on Hainan's offshore islands. (Reporter Cao Mazhi)