The tourism industry in Hangzhou, capital city and a well-known tourist destination in eastern China's Zhejiang province, earned 45.1 billion yuan ($6.63 billion) in the first half of this year, a growth of 17.5 percent year-on-year.

The total included the equivalent of $809 million earned from overseas tourists, up 18.6 percent.

The city received 1.23 million visitors from abroad in the six months, up 15.8 percent.

Meanwhile, the city saw 143,100 people travel abroad between January and June, up 59.4 percent. Destinations they favored included Vietnam, the Republic of Korea, Philippines, Japan, Indonesia and Maldives.

Editor: Li Cheng

Source: Xinhua