Expo Park to achieve more than 4.5 billion retail sales

(Reporter Yang Qun) The Shanghai World Expo has been successfully closed, how much business opportunities during the expo?　　The municipal Bureau of Statistics released yesterday data show that during the expo, the park business accumulated retail sales of 4.507 billion yuan, of which the public areas of business to achieve retail sales of 3.256 billion yuan, the pavilion area to achieve retail sales of 1.251 billion yuan.　　After the opening of the Expo, the park retail sales also increased steadily with the increase of passenger flow, May to October, respectively, to achieve retail sales of 646 million yuan, 810 million yuan, 818 million yuan, 773 million yuan, 613 million yuan, 847 million yuan. Catering consumption is a major consumer item in the Expo Park. According to statistics, during the Expo, visitors in the park to break through 53.931 million times, the proportion of the meal as high as 73.8%. In the public area of the Expo Park, there are 133 restaurants, and 83 restaurants in the pavilion.　　May-October, the park restaurant accumulated retail sales of 2.492 billion yuan, of which public areas catering to achieve 1.936 billion yuan, the pavilion area to achieve 556 million yuan. In terms of merchandising, 100 franchised retail stores and convenience stores were opened in the public areas during the Expo and 155 souvenir shops in the pavilion. World Expo Licensed goods and National souvenir sales, May-October, the park merchandise sales to achieve 2.015 billion yuan, of which the public area to the goods to achieve the main concession 1.32 billion yuan, the exhibition hall souvenirs to achieve 695 million yuan. Special merchandise, especially the expo small gifts by tourists favorite, Expo Passport, mascot toys, mobile phone chain, medals and other sales hot. The exhibition hall of the national characteristics of goods favored, Belgian chocolate, French perfume, New Zealand milk powder, Australian sheep oil, Korean cosmetics, African indigenous jewelry, are tourists snapping targets. Especially at the end of October, with the expo near the end of most of the exhibition hall souvenirs to take discounts, special sales and other promotional forms, more aroused the enthusiasm of tourists, October to achieve retail sales of 177 million yuan.