Nanjing Daily reported on 3 October that the city’s Smart Tourism Big Data Monitoring Platform recorded 5.078 million visits across attractions, museums and other monitoring points over 1–2 October. The source reports visits, not people. A person who goes to several venues, or returns to a venue, may generate more than one visit. The 5.078 million figure therefore cannot be read as the number of distinct people who arrived in Nanjing during the opening days of the holiday.

The platform’s daily figure for 2 October was 2.945 million visits. The report describes the monitored scope as scenic attractions, cultural and museum venues, rural-tourism sites and nationally designated night-time cultural-tourism clusters. It is not a census of the whole city. It is a flow total from participating sites covered by the monitoring system, and the article does not explain its sampling or deduplication method. That boundary matters when interpreting the headline total and comparing it with other tourism indicators.

The published subcategories help show the breadth of the measure: 1.538 million visits to attractions, 213,000 to museums and cultural venues, and 220,000 at 85 monitored rural-tourism sites on 2 October. The report does not supply a complete reconciliation table for every category in the headline, so the listed components should not be used to reconstruct or replace the 2.945 million total. They do show that the city’s holiday monitoring included more than traditional monuments and landscape attractions.

Visitors classified as non-local accounted for 65.9% of the 2 October total. This is a share of monitored visits under the source’s local-versus-non-local classification; it does not by itself establish how many distinct people came from outside Nanjing or how long they stayed. The report lists Anhui, Zhejiang, Shandong, Guangdong, Henan, Shanghai, Hebei, Beijing, Hubei and Jiangxi among the leading out-of-province origins. That list describes the reported geographic mix, not spending or length of stay.

Accommodation provides a separate indicator. The article says average occupancy at key monitored hotels reached 89.4% on 2 October and notes that several named hotels were full. The rate is not presented as the occupancy of every lodging business in Nanjing; it applies to hotels described as key or monitored. Hotel occupancy measures use of lodging capacity, while visits measure flows through monitored venues. A high daily visit count and a high hotel occupancy rate are related signals but are not interchangeable or additive.

UnionPay Business supplied another, monetary measure for 1 October: Nanjing cultural-tourism consumption was reported at 1.64 billion yuan, including 1.05 billion yuan classified as consumption from outside the city. This figure covers a different day and comes from a separate data provider than the 2 October visitor counts. It is not a two-day total or a calculation of spending per visitor. The report does not detail transaction coverage or how payments were matched to visitors, so the amount should be described at the scope provided rather than as all city retail sales.

The article also gives examples of where holiday activity concentrated. The Confucius Temple–Qinhuai Scenic Area, Zhongshan, Xuanwu Lake, Hongshan Forest Zoo and Niushou Mountain were the five sites ranked highest for visitor reception. A concert at Tangshan Music Valley drew 40,000 visits, while a fireworks event at Jinniu Lake drew 10,000. These are venue or event counts and should not be added again to the citywide monitored total. The holiday programme combined cultural performances, museums, attractions and rural sites in the monitoring picture.

Taken together, the early-holiday figures offer several different signs of demand: a broad but site-limited flow of visits, a large non-local share, strong occupancy at selected hotels and a separate card-payment provider’s consumption measure. The sources do not provide a deduplicated count of individuals, revenue for every tourism business or a comparable citywide year-on-year total. The indicators are best treated as a descriptive snapshot of Nanjing’s opening holiday days, not as a complete account of the city economy or the final result for the full holiday week.