Now that China's week-long Spring Festival holiday has wrapped up, analysts are gleeful to discover travel – both domestic and foreign – are on the up and up.

The National Holiday Tourism Office said on Saturday that more than 140,000 people left Shanghai to go abroad, up 20 percent year on year. In Suzhou, Jiangsu province, 6,690 people went overseas, up 36 percent, the agency said. The office, citing tourism authorities in South Korea, said 45,000 Chinese citizens visited that country during the holiday, up 30 percent year on year.