Sanya's off-island duty-free consumption surges since holiday travel rush

After the start of the Spring Festival travel rush on Jan 26, the number of passengers entering and leaving Hainan Island has rapidly increased, fueling the off-island duty-free consumption.

 
Statistics have shown that during the first week of the travel rush from Jan 26 to Feb 1, Sanya Customs supervised 632 million yuan ($88 million) in off-island duty-free shopping, with 108,700 individuals and 629,100 items.

With the approaching Spring Festival, major off-island duty-free shops in Sanya have launched promotional activities to create diverse consumption scenes to meet the needs of different consumer groups, helping to boost the off-island duty-free consumption boom.

Behind the upgraded consumer experience is improved quality and efficiency brought about by intelligent supervision. To help duty-free enterprises seize the "golden period" of peak sales, Haikou Customs has continuously advanced the efficiency of centralized off-island duty-free declaration processing reform.

 
The time for filing duty-free goods has been shortened to less than three minutes, and the non-inspection approval time has been reduced to less than five minutes, ensuring "zero delays" in the shelving of duty-free goods and significantly improving logistics turnover efficiency, further reducing enterprise operating costs.