China News Agency, Beijing, December 29 (Reporter Liu Liang) New Year's Day in 2023 is approaching. As China's domestic epidemic prevention and control measures continue to be optimized, entry and exit policies are further relaxed, and "cross-provincial travel" and "cross-border travel" are gradually picking up .
According to data disclosed by the Chinese online travel platform Qunar on the 29th, the number of air ticket bookings departing during the New Year’s Day in 2023 is increasing day by day, with a single-day maximum increase of 30%.
Beijing, Chengdu, and Guangzhou have become the first regions in China to start inter-provincial travel.
On the Qunar platform, the bookings of air tickets and train tickets departing from Beijing took the lead in increasing. Since the 23rd, the growth rate of bookings departing from Chengdu, Guangzhou, and Shanghai has accelerated.
Air ticket bookings departing from Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and Chongqing will be accelerated from the 25th.
In terms of popular destinations, Chengdu, Beijing, Sanya, Shanghai, Haikou, Chongqing, Kunming, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Xi'an are the most popular destinations for inter-provincial travel on New Year's Day.
Guo Lechun, deputy director of Qunar Big Data Research Institute, analyzed and pointed out that the growth and changes in the bookings of air tickets and train tickets in the source of tourists reflect the recovery of urban consumption capacity.
Judging from the current New Year's Day ticket booking situation, first-tier and new first-tier cities are the first to enter the fast lane of recovery.
In addition to "inter-provincial travel", with the further optimization of China's entry and exit policies, "cross-border travel" is also gradually recovering.
On the Qunar platform, on the 27th, the number of people who searched for international air tickets departing before New Year’s Day increased by 8.5 times from the same time last week, and the booking volume increased by 1.8 times from the same time last week.
At the same time, international hotel bookings are also growing rapidly.
On the Qunar platform, from 11:00 pm on the 26th to the 27th, the number of international hotel bookings increased by 40% compared with the same period the previous day; in terms of search volume, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and the United States are popular destinations.
Guo Lechun said that as the civil aviation department of China released the work plan for resuming international passenger flights on the 28th, the 75% passenger load factor limit for inbound flights will be lifted from January 8, 2023, and more seats on inbound flights will be released, which will help reduce the number of passengers. travel concerns, and further enhance the confidence of tourists traveling abroad.
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