China reported a significant surge in travel and consumption during the three-day Qingming Festival holiday, which concluded on Saturday, according to official data.

Qingming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, is an important occasion for Chinese to honor their ancestors. Many also spend the three-day holiday on leisure travel.

China saw about 119 million domestic passenger trips during the three-day holiday, up 11.5 percent from the same period in 2019, according to data from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The data also showed domestic revenue during the period totaled 53.95 billion yuan (around $7.6 billion), up 12.7 percent from the same period in 2019.

Inbound and outbound tourism also saw a remarkable increase during the holiday as many residents in Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia returned to their hometowns to worship ancestors, visit relatives and friends and go sightseeing.

Figures from the ministry showed that the Chinese mainland saw 1.04 million inbound trips and 992,000 heading to overseas destinations.

Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Xiamen and Kunming were among the most popular destinations for inbound tickets, according to data from the travel platform LY.com. Meanwhile, data from another travel portal, Tuniu, said Thailand, Japan and the Maldives were the top three popular overseas tourist destinations.