Tourists are swarming back to Beijing's major attractions, with the visitor numbers during the first three days of the Spring Festival holiday bouncing back to 91 percent of the 2019 level despite stringent anti-epidemic measures in place. 

The city's 147 key tourist spots saw about 2.76 million visits between February 11 and 13, with Wangfujing shopping street topping the chart with 360,000 tourist arrivals, said the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism. 

Revenues of these spots increased 1.6 times from the same period in 2019, according to the bureau.

Other popular destinations in terms of visitor numbers include Qianmen Street, located near Tian'anmen Square; a shopping plaza in the suburban Changping District; and the Nanluoguxiang Lane, known for its well-preserved quadrangle courtyards. 

Beijing registered a resurgence in COVID-19 cases between December and January. The city has called on its scenic spots to cap the tourist number at 50 percent of the capacity during the seven-day holiday and encourage online ticket booking and off-peak travels in a bid to mitigate risks of cluster infections. 

Many of the city's scenic spots were closed during the usually busy and crowded 

Spring Festival holiday in 2020 to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.

(Cover: View of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, China, February 15, 2021. /CFP)