BEIJING, May 4 -- Many Beijingers are gearing up to attend the year's most significant event, Expo 2010 in Shanghai, with heavy bookings for air and bus tickets between two cities.
The show - which will run from May 1 to Oct 31 - is expected to attract between 70 and 80 million visitors, which will make it the highest attendance of any single event in history.
Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected every day - peaking at as many as 800,000 visitors are expected each day to see what 200 participants around the world have put on display.
Ctrip.com, the designated travel agency of the Expo, said so far, about 50 percent of those who had booked through it want to go in May. And visitors have indicated a preference to visit on weekends, with numbers about three times higher than that on weekdays.
