(Yicai) Oct. 17 -- Shanghai’s tourism industry experienced a welcome boost last week when Chinese pop singer Jay Chou held a concert in the city. Hotels were booked out while take out orders and transport bookings surged, according to the latest data.

Many hotels near the stadium were fully booked, according to travel platform Tongcheng. And overall, hotel bookings in the city surged 80 percent during the concert from the week before.

Hotel bookings in Shanghai on Trip.com almost tripled between Oct. 12 and 15 from the same period last year, the Shanghai-based online travel agency said, citing data as of Oct. 14.

And dinner take away orders in Xuhui district, where the stadium is located, soared by 44 percent on Oct. 12 from the previous day and those in nearby Changning district jumped 56 percent, according to meal delivery giant Ele.me. Across the city, meal deliveries increased by 24 percent.

There is huge market demand for large-scale recreational activities such as concerts now that the Covid-19 pandemic is eased, said Liu Xu, a researcher at the National Strategy Institute of Tsinghua University. This will mainly benefit big cities with sophisticated tourist facilities. But boosting urban consumption through concerts is not sustainable in the long term, he added.

Transport hubs were buzzing. The number of people purchasing air and high-speed rail tickets to Shanghai between Oct. 13 and 15 soared by more than three-and-a-half times from the same period last month, according to another online travel agency Lvmama.

Taxi and other forms of transport bookings in the city surged around six-fold week on week, Suzhou, eastern Jiangsu province-based Tongcheng said.

Air ticket sales between Oct. 12 and Oct. 15 doubled, according to Trip.com.

Editors: Shi Yi, Kim Taylor