Visitor numbers on the rise
May 31, 2010 Category Weekly
More than 500,000 people visited the Expo on May 29, breaking the previous day’s record of 382,100. There were long queues at entrances as well as almost all the pavilions, restaurants, toilets and snack stalls. The number of group visitors reached 180,000 and there were still long queues at the Houtan Entrance in Pudong by 10:30 a.m., the main entrance for groups. Visitors had to wait for up to eight hours to enter the Saudi Arabia Pavilion. The Expo organizers have stopped the sale of group tickets to companies and institutions to ensure there are enough for individual buyers. They fear companies are giving out the tickets as gifts to employees, which could cause a flood of people to the site at the end of the Expo. So far, more than 37 million tickets have been sold while only 6.8 million visitors have entered the site. Income from ticket sales has reached CNY5 billion since sales started.
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