China News Service, Beijing, February 11 (Reporter Liu Liang) Data released by the Chinese online travel platform Qunar on the 11th showed that many places in China will usher in a tourism boom during the 2024 Spring Festival.
Qunar platform data shows that there is no obvious travel trough during the 2024 Spring Festival holiday. The number of air ticket bookings for trips from the second to the fourth day of the Lunar New Year increased by 60% compared with the same period in 2023, with the highest number of trips on the second day of the Lunar New Year; before popular destinations The ten places are Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Kunming, Haikou, Xi'an and Hangzhou.
From the perspective of short-distance travel, passengers within the "two-hour high-speed rail circle" move more with each other, such as the flow between Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, the Yangtze-Zhuzhou-Tantan area, and the Chengdu-Chongqing metropolitan area, making the "deserted" metropolitan area in previous years more popular. Cities are even more popular this year.
On February 10, in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, tourists played in front of the large dragon lanterns arranged in the old street in the south of the city. Today is the first day of the first lunar month of the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese lunar calendar, and the ancient city of Nanjing is full of flavor. Photo by China News Service reporter Yang Bo
The Spring Festival travel boom has driven hotel bookings. Data shows that in the two days before the holiday, hotel bookings in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen increased by more than 50% compared with the same period in 2023, and bookings in cities such as Nanjing, Wuhan, and Suzhou also increased by more than 30%.
Data filtered by the age group of travelers on the Qunar platform show that Chengdu ranks first as the “favorite city for those born in the 2000s”, followed by Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Chongqing and other cities; Beijing ranks first among the “most visited cities”. Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Kunming, Xi’an, Hangzhou and other cities are also loved by the “post-90s generation”; popular parent-child travel destinations are Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Haikou, Hangzhou, etc.
Platform search data shows that tickets for many well-known scenic spots such as the Forbidden City, Lama Temple, Terracotta Warriors, and Hunan Museum have been booked before the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. New Year lantern festivals such as Qinhuai River Lantern Festival in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, Yu Garden Lantern Festival in Shanghai, and Xi'an City Wall Lantern Festival have driven bookings in scenic spots to increase by more than 50% year-on-year in the two days before the Spring Festival. (over)