A tourism company in China said today, Friday, that domestic travel and hotel reservations started to recover in the country late last month, after an outbreak of the Corona virus created a helix in the travel and tourism industry around the world.
The company, "Tung Cheng Elong" Holding Company for Tourism Services via the Internet, said that the hotel reservation rates increased during the week ending March 1 by 40% compared to the previous week, while the rates of daily domestic flight reservations in China increased by 230% compared to the lowest rates that were Recorded it last month.
"Hotel occupancy rates in major cities across China are expected to reach 90% by the end of March," Bloomberg News quoted Tong Tchenglong officials as saying.
OAG Aviation Worldwide, the airline's worldwide travel data provider, said Chinese airlines would re-operate nearly three million airline seats on scheduled flights this week, especially on domestic airlines.
"The main sources of passengers are the cities of Sichuan, Chongqing, Shanxi, and Henan, as the residents of these cities began to return to their places of work in coastal areas after the Spring Festival holiday ended," Tongchenglong said.