Chinanews.com, December 30th (Chinanews Finance and Economics reporter Xie Yiguan) Beaches, hot springs, ski resorts... The New Year's Day holiday is approaching, and many people have already planned their travel itineraries.
With the recovery of people's willingness to travel, the number of air tickets and hotel reservations for many popular destinations continues to rise.
"During the New Year's Day, the rooms in the store have basically been booked." The customer service of a popular private soup resort hotel in Beijing said so.
New Year's Day travel is busy, some hotel prices "rising"
Recently, "Yangkang people flock to Sanya, Hainan" has become a trending topic on Weibo.
The New Year's Day holiday is approaching, and many people have bought air tickets and hotels.
With the continuous optimization and adjustment of the epidemic prevention and control policy, the popularity of the Sanya Airport terminal is becoming increasingly popular.
Photo courtesy of Chen Zhenhuang
According to the data provided by Fliggy on the 29th, the number of air ticket bookings for travel on New Year’s Day in the past week has nearly doubled from the previous week, and cities such as Chengdu, Sanya, Chongqing, Shanghai, Beijing, Kunming, Haikou, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Harbin have become popular destinations. land.
During the New Year's Day period, the booking volume of high-star hotels also increased by more than 70% from the previous week. Among them, hotel bookings in cities such as Sanya, Wanning, Lingshui, Xiamen, Baishan, and Tonghua grew faster.
Qunar platform data shows that since December 19, domestic air ticket bookings departing during the New Year’s Day have increased by almost 30% every day. As the New Year’s Day holiday approaches, the bookings for the two days of December 26 and 27 are even more significant compared to the previous month. promote.
"During the New Year's Day holiday, hotel rooms are still quite tight." A staff member of a well-known hotel in Sanya's Yalong Bay told reporters, "Looking at the situation in previous years, this period is now the peak booking period."
The customer service of a well-known hotel in Haitang Bay, Sanya also said, "Recently, the number of bookings has been increasing every day. According to the current booking situation, the room occupancy rate is about 50% during the New Year's Day."
The reporter noticed that during the New Year's Day holiday, some rooms in some hotels in Sanya were fully booked, and the prices also increased significantly compared with usual.
Take the above-mentioned hotel in Yalong Bay as an example. When the reporter inquired in mid-December, the price of a certain room type was less than 1,000 yuan, but it had risen to more than 2,000 yuan during the New Year's Day holiday.
"The room price will change every day. During the period from New Year's Day to the Spring Festival, which belongs to the peak tourist season in Sanya, the price will be higher than usual. The Spring Festival is the highest time of the year." The hotel staff explained.
The reporter searched for prices during the Spring Festival and found that the reservation price of the above-mentioned room types has reached more than 4,000 yuan.
During the New Year's Day holiday, not only hotels ushered in a strong passenger flow. The "2023 New Year's Day Holiday Homestay Reservation Trend Report" released by Wooden Bird B&B shows that it is expected that the number of homestay bookings during the New Year's Day holiday is expected to reach about 1.5 times that of 2022 New Year's Day.
During the New Year's Day holiday, these popular items are sought after
During the New Year’s Day holiday, in addition to going to warm places such as Sanya for the winter, hot springs and other popular projects are also popular, which has led to an increase in the number of reservations for related hotels and homestays.
Data map: Guizhou Hot Springs.
Photo by Zhou Yanling
Sang Sang, a post-90s travel blogger, is very keen on winter hot springs. On New Year’s Day this year, she plans to have a hot spring “relay race” with her friends. She will first go to Tengchong to experience volcanic hot springs, and then go to Guangdong and Haikou to soak in health soup.
Sangsang said: "The most basic respect for winter is to go to waste."
People's love for hot springs is also reflected in the number of reservations.
During the New Year's Day holiday, some popular hot spring hotels and B&Bs in Beijing experienced shortages of rooms, some room types were sold out, and prices also rose significantly.
"Except for the four-person suite that has not been booked, the rest of the room types have been booked." The customer service of a private soup resort hotel in Changping, Beijing told reporters, "Every year on New Year's Day, room reservations are relatively hot, and the booking is only a month in advance. Safer."
The reporter noticed that the price of the room types of the private soup resort hotel ranged from a few thousand yuan to tens of thousands of yuan.
During the New Year's Day period, some room types worth tens of thousands of yuan have also been fully booked.
In addition to soaking in hot springs, young people who pursue a sense of ritual have also unlocked more trendy ways to play, welcoming the arrival of 2023.
According to Fliggy data, skiing, going to the park, swimming in the lake, camping, making tea around the stove, killing scripts in hotels, roaming ancient towns, watching fireworks, and mountaineering are the top ten popular ways to play on New Year's Day in 2023.
The picture shows tourists experiencing the fun of skiing at the Aershan Ski Resort.
Photo courtesy of Propaganda Department of Xing'an League Committee
According to data released by Wooden Bird B&B on the 19th, with the opening of ski resorts in Northeast China and North China, the bookings of homestays around ski resorts in Zhangjiakou, Harbin and other places continued to rise, with orders reaching 1.4 times and 1.6 times that of New Year's Day in 2022, respectively. .
In addition, at the Shanghai Disneyland Hotel, the rooms are already full on December 31; at the Universal Studios Hotel in Beijing, some room types have also been booked during the New Year's Day holiday.
During the Spring Festival, there may be a wave of outbound tourism
Recently, the "Overall Plan for the Implementation of "Class B and B Controls" for Novel Coronavirus Infection" was issued.
It is clearly stated that in accordance with the international epidemic situation and various service guarantee capabilities, the outbound travel of Chinese citizens will be resumed in an orderly manner.
After the news was released, the search volume of international air tickets and hotels on major travel service platforms rose rapidly.
According to Fliggy data, the number of searches for international air tickets has increased by more than 8 times in an instant, and the number of people served by Fliggy’s digital visa center on the same day has increased by more than 8.3 times compared with last year; Ctrip data shows that within half an hour of the announcement, the number of searches for popular overseas destinations on Ctrip’s platform has increased year-on-year. It has soared 10 times, and outbound (including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) air tickets and overseas hotel searches have reached their peak in three years.
People's enthusiasm for going abroad is also reflected in the order volume.
On the same journey travel platform, as of 14:00 on the 27th, the order volume of international air tickets for the same journey has increased by more than 400% month-on-month.
Overseas hotel bookings in Hong Kong, Macau, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Pattaya, etc. have increased significantly. As of 12 noon on the 27th, the single-day bookings in Bangkok have increased by 147%.
Since next month will usher in the seven-day long Spring Festival holiday of the Year of the Rabbit, a wave of outbound travel during the Spring Festival may come.
According to data from Ctrip, searches for many popular outbound destinations before the epidemic began to increase significantly during the 2023 Spring Festival period.
The search volume for products related to outbound and group tours during the Spring Festival has soared 6 times.
The "Annual Report on China's Outbound Tourism Development (2022-2023)" recently released by the China Tourism Academy shows that from 2020 to 2022, the number of outbound tourists in my country will decrease by 400 million, and outbound tourism will be severely damaged.
According to industry insiders, the restart of outbound tourism inspired by the new policy will effectively restore tourists' confidence and release the backlog of outbound tourism demand during the epidemic. The implementation of the new policy will press the "accelerator" for the recovery of outbound tourism.
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