News from our newspaper (Reporter Zhao Tingting) With the end of the Spring Festival holiday, the tourism market has ushered in a good time for shifting peaks.
A reporter from Beijing Youth Daily learned from Ctrip, Qunar, Tongcheng and other travel booking platforms that air ticket prices plummeted after the festival, and that tourists who travel off-peak can save more than 30% compared to during the Spring Festival.
According to the Ctrip platform, air ticket prices dropped sharply after the Spring Festival holiday.
So far, the average price of a one-way air ticket departing this week is 926 yuan, which is 20% lower than the average price during the Spring Festival of the Year of the Rabbit.
The prices of hotels in many popular tourist destinations such as Sanya, Xishuangbanna, and Dali have been halved compared with the Spring Festival, and the average price of domestic hotel orders has dropped by nearly 20% overall.
This weekend coincides with the Lantern Festival, and data from Ctrip shows that searches for keywords such as "night tour" and "lantern festival" have doubled in the past week compared with the same period last year, and ticket orders for the Lantern Festival have increased by 104% year-on-year.
In addition, data from Tongcheng Travel shows that since January, with the popularity of film and television dramas such as "Hurricane", "To a Windy Place", and "Man Jianghong", the search interest in Jiangmen has increased by nearly 130% month-on-month. Dali's search popularity has increased by more than 3 times.
Driven by the dual drive of film and television dramas and cultural tourism, a number of scenic spots related to film and television dramas, such as Shaxi Ancient Town and Fengyang Town in Dali, Yunnan, Xuding Old Street, Shuibutou, Xinshi in the Changdi Historical and Cultural District of Jiangmen, Guangdong Road, Youth Square, etc., traffic and popularity are rising steadily.
The post-90s and post-00s who love to watch dramas and travel are the main force to travel to these destinations in the near future.
On February 6, the outbound group tour business will be resumed on a pilot basis, and outbound tours will become a popular option.
A search on the Ctrip app shows that air tickets to Hong Kong and Macau from all over the country have dropped significantly compared to the Spring Festival period. It only costs about 1,000 yuan to travel from Shanghai to Hong Kong and Macau, more than 1,500 yuan to Beijing to and from Hong Kong, and more than 1,200 yuan per person to fly to Macau.
In Thailand, the price of a direct flight from Shanghai to Phuket in February is 1,600 yuan, and that from Nanjing to Phuket is 2,000 yuan, which is a sharp drop compared to the price of about 7,000 to 10,000 yuan during the Spring Festival.
With the flight resumption and encrypted news, the return of Chinese tourists to the global market is also expected.
According to Ctrip statistics, as of the end of January, there were more than 40 domestic outbound resumption routes in February, and the average weekly resumption of flights exceeded 140.
Among them, routes to Asian destinations accounted for more than 80%, and only Hong Kong, Macau and Thailand rescheduled flights accounted for more than 40%.
In addition, from the price point of view, the price of 30% of the flights is lower than the average transaction price in the same period in 2019, and about 10% of the flights are even more than 30% cheaper than in 2019.
The outbound group tour business is about to be resumed on a pilot basis. Travel agencies and online travel companies can carry out outbound group tours and "air ticket + hotel" business. Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and other countries are on the first list.
At that time, with the launch of a large number of independent travel products, tourists will have one more cost-effective way to travel.