China News Agency, Beijing, April 7 (Reporter Li Jiajia Guo Jun Wang Jian) This year's Qingming small holiday, most of China's regions are spring and Jingming, and the sky is clear, driven by "retaliatory consumption" after the epidemic, and some regions launched With the stimulation of free travel and discounted ticket activities, some Chinese people choose to go out of their homes during the holidays. Tourism around the city is picking up, and the hotel industry is also recovering.
China Railway Guangzhou Bureau Group Co., Ltd. announced on the 6th that according to the ticket sales statistics, during the Qingming holiday (April 3-April 6), the Guangzhou Railway Group transported 2.76 million passengers, of which 2.19 million were sent by high-speed rail, about It accounts for 79% of the total sent volume. The passenger flow of Beijing-Guangzhou, Shanghai-Kunming, Nanguang, Guiguang, Xiamen-Shenzhen and other high-speed railway lines have all increased. Guangzhou Railway Group added Zhanjiang, Chaoshan, and Hunan to Guangzhou-Shenzhen trains. During the Qingming holiday, passenger traffic was still concentrated on Beijing-Guangzhou, Nanguang, Guiguang, Shanghai-Kunming, Xiamen-Shenzhen key high-speed rail lines.
According to the data from the "Summary Report of Qingming Tourism 2020" on the travel website of Donkey Mom, 62% of the users choose the half-day tour of the local scenic spot and 28% of the users choose the local one-day tour. In terms of transportation options, 83% of users use self-driving tours.
Hotel reservations also largely confirm the above trends. Reservations and occupancy from 377 hotels in China under Marriott International show that resort hotels around the city have become popular choices. For example, Anji, a three-hour drive around Shanghai, has always been popular because of its natural scenery such as the bamboo sea. Zhejiang Anji JW Marriott Hotel ushered in a full house for two consecutive days; Sheshan and Chongming Island, known as the "back garden" of Shanghai, have also become the ideal place for this Qingming outing.
Jiangxi Province, a major tourism resource province, announced on the 6th that as of 18:00 on April 6, Jiangxi Province received a total of 9.612 million tourists during the Qingming Holiday, a year-on-year decrease of 44.65%, and tourism revenue of 5.291 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 51.5%.
In order to attract tourists, on the eve of the Ching Ming holiday, Jiangxi launched the "Trial to implement a 2.5-day flexible daily rest system every weekend in the second quarter" "Half-price discounts on Friday afternoon tickets for 5A, 4A tourist attractions and 5A rural tourist spots in the province" The “Jiangxi Net Red Tourism Line” “Issue 10 million tourism consumption vouchers” and other policies combined.
Cao Guoxin, a professor at Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, said in an interview with a reporter from China News Service that in theory, a 2.5-day holiday will greatly expand the development space of the tourism industry, especially overnight space, and promote the in-depth development of the industry. Since the supporting reforms on the supply side and the demand side still need to be effectively promoted, the short-term benefits cannot be expected to be too high, but the new impetus to stir the tourism market is bound to continue to be provided. (Finish)