This Labor Day
Closed from April 4 to May 29
A total of 5 days
April 4 (Sun)
I will start work on Saturday, May 5
If you take three days off on May 5, 4 and 5
to spell out 9 days of vacation
May Day ticket grab calendar
Tickets for April 4: On sale on April 29
Tickets for April 4: On sale on April 30
Tickets for April 5: On sale on April 01
Tickets for April 5: On sale on April 02
Tickets for April 5: On sale on April 03
Tickets for April 5: On sale on April 04
Tickets for April 5: On sale on April 05
Tickets for April 5: On sale on April 06
Tickets for April 5: On sale on April 07
According to the "May Day" holiday tourism preview data of some travel platforms, domestic travel orders have reached the same level as in 2019, with a year-on-year increase of more than 7 times; Outbound bookings for mainland outbound tours increased by more than 18 times year-on-year, and the number of overseas package tour registrations increased by 4% compared with the beginning of April.
Data map: Scene of Wulin Night Market in Hangzhou in previous years. Photo courtesy of Wulin Night Market
Which destinations are popular during the May Day holiday?
According to platform data, as of April 4, in addition to the four super cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, popular destinations such as Chengdu, Chongqing, Xi'an, Hangzhou and Changsha, as well as tourist and resort cities such as Kunming, Sanya and Haikou are also popular.
Qunar data shows that on May Day this year, the popular short-distance routes are Chongqing-Chengdu, Beijing-Tianjin, Guangzhou-Shenzhen, Shanghai-Suzhou, Shanghai-Hangzhou, Kunming-Dali, Jinan-Zibo, Chengdu-Leshan, etc.; Popular long-term routes are Beijing-Changsha, Beijing-Wuhan, Shanghai-Guangzhou, Guangzhou-Chongqing, etc. The top 10 popular destinations are Chongqing, Chengdu, Beijing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Kunming, Dali, Haikou, Guangzhou and Changsha. Chongqing North Railway Station is the most searched station.
According to Tongcheng travel data, as of April 4, the most popular domestic tourist destinations for the May Day holiday were Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Xi'an, Changsha, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Kunming.
According to Ctrip's data, as of April 4, the overall travel registration in Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Chengdu, Xi'an, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Wuhan, Guangzhou and Changsha during the May Day period was relatively popular. Among them, popular tourist destinations such as Chengdu, Changsha, Qingdao, Suzhou, Fuzhou and Zhuhai exceeded 6% in 2019, Dali "May Day" tourism orders exceeded 30% in 2019, and Weihai increased by more than 190%.
Aerial photograph of Zibo "barbecue rivers and lakes". Photo by Liang Ben
On the Qunar platform, as early as early March, some travelers booked hotels in popular tourist destinations such as Sanya and Dali in advance; With 3 days to go until May Day, the Beijing-Dali economy class was sold out on April 50.
In terms of self-driving tours, on Ctrip's platform, the number of car rental orders on May Day increased by more than 2021% year-on-year, and Fuzhou, Lanzhou, Dalian, Weihai, Nanchang, Yining, Huangshan, Shantou and other places ranked high in the growth rate of car rental orders, becoming the new destinations for this year's "May Day" self-driving tours, and car rental orders in these regions increased by more than 200% compared with May Day in <>.
The Lalin Railway Plateau Fuxing Shuttling through the peach blossom forest. Photo by Ma Shengming
Where is "outbound travel" popular?
With the resumption of outbound group travel business pilots, the booking of outbound travel products during the May Day holiday has also entered a peak.
According to Ctrip's data, as of April 4, the overall booking volume of mainland outbound travel products increased by more than 6 times year-on-year, the search volume of outbound air tickets during the May Day holiday increased by more than 18 times year-on-year, and the average price of outbound one-way air tickets was 9,2564 yuan, down 58% year-on-year.
According to the booking data of each platform, Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Macao, the United States, Indonesia and the Philippines are the top ten destinations for outbound travel during the May Day holiday.
At the same time, with the launch of cross-border trains from outside Guangdong Province to Hong Kong, the convenience of mainland travel to Hong Kong has greatly increased. On Ctrip's platform, the number of mainland travel orders to Hong Kong on May Day increased by 4% compared with the beginning of April (April 1-5), and the number of package tours to Hong Kong increased by 213.4 times compared with the beginning of April.
Data map: Shanghai Hongqiao. Photo courtesy of China Eastern Airlines
The tourism market in many places "opened well" in the first quarter
Qunar's big data shows that the top 10 popular scenic spots in the country during this year's Qingming holiday are: Shanghai Disneyland, Universal Beijing Resort, Beijing Palace Museum, Yangzhou Slender West Lake, Sanya Nanshan Cultural Tourism Zone, Beijing Badaling Great Wall, Beijing Wild Animal Park, Suzhou Humble Administrator's Garden, Xi'an Mausoleum Museum of the First Qin Emperor, and Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base.
In the first quarter of this year, the tourism market in various places ushered in a "good start". Qunar data shows that the number of inbound and outbound air ticket bookings in Sanya, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Shenzhen and other cities has exceeded the same period before the epidemic. The number of room nights in popular city hotels increased by 60% compared with pre-epidemic levels.
This year's "May Day" holiday,
Where are you going to play?
(China News Service WeChat public account)