People didn't expect the arrival of an unexpected enlarged number of tourists during the Spring Festival days in Hainan though preparations had been made for a possible travel upsurge in the number of tourists from outside Hainan.

Statistics say that there are as many as about 260,000 tourists who had spent their Spring Festival days in Hainan to show a 15 percent rise over last year. With this is also a 20 percent growth of earnings from tourism in the locality.