Chinanews client, Beijing, October 5 (Reporter Li Jinlei) "What's the date today?" "Fifth day!" Halfway through the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival, many friends feel the same as the Chinese New Year.

  On this special holiday, the familiar "people from the crowd" came back, and as many as 425 million people traveled in the first 4 days.

Under the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, tourism has undergone different changes. Reunion tours, surrounding tours, self-driving tours, and no-appointment tours have become new features of this year's Golden Week tourism.

October 1, the 71st anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

People came to Beijing Tiananmen Square to watch the flag raising ceremony.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Sheng Jiapeng

425 million trips in 4 days reappeared "crowded"

  The 8-day Super Golden Week has stimulated the enthusiasm of the people to travel, and the familiar "people herd" is back.

On September 30th, the Didi and Tida apps collapsed one after another, showing the travel demand.

  Although the scenic spot has a 75% current limit, the number of holiday tourists is still rising.

According to the comprehensive calculations of the China Tourism Academy (Data Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism), from October 1-4, the country received 425 million domestic tourists and achieved tourism revenue of 312.02 billion yuan.

  According to data released by the National Railway Group Co., Ltd., from September 30 to October 3, the number of passengers sent by national railways exceeded 10 million for 4 consecutive days.

  Tickets for many scenic spots are sold out, so it's so lively.

At 10:15 on the morning of October 3, the tickets for the Badaling Great Wall Scenic Area in Beijing were sold out that day. This is the first time that tickets have been sold out since March 24.

On the same day, the scenic spot launched a first-level response plan for the red warning.

  Congestion led to the recurrence of the high-speed "parking lot" scene. Some netizens said that "I have been stuck for nearly 5 hours and brought 3 boxes of mooncakes to my relatives. Two boxes have been eliminated." This caused everyone to smile: Although the traffic was blocked, the traffic was busy. Behind it is Guotai Minan.

On October 2, the second day of the Mid-Autumn National Day holiday, the weather in Beijing was fine and a bright moon gradually rose at night.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Sheng Jiapeng

Reunion Tour: Make up for the missed reunion during the Spring Festival

  In the great travel tide, reporters from Chinanews.com found that many families were out for a long-lost reunion trip with the whole family during this long holiday.

  An Ruosu (pseudonym), who works in a university in Jinan, Shandong, took part in a huge family trip. Several relatives traveled together with as many as 14 people.

  "There is no reunion during the Spring Festival this year. The missed reunion will be made up during the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival." An Ruosu said: "We went to Zibo to visit the ancient street of Zhoucun. This is my grandma's hometown, her house, weaving and dyeing factory. The history of the rise and fall of the family is a familiar story when I was a child."

  That's right, the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival meeting this year made the country and family full of emotions, but they collided with the late New Year.

The family reunion tour that did not take place during the Spring Festival this year was realized during this National Day Mid-Autumn Festival.

The picture shows a group of diners meeting friends to taste "the world's largest hot pot".

Photo by Zhou Yi

Peripheral Tour: You can have fun without leaving the province

  This year’s National Day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday is the first long holiday under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control. Many places require residents to consciously abide by epidemic prevention and control regulations, and try not to travel across provinces during the holiday, especially many schools also recommend that students and parents do not need to Out of the province, not out of the city.

  Under the requirement of not leaving the province or the city, traveling around and local has become the people's choice.

  Ms. Zhao, a Beijing citizen, said: “In response to the call of the children’s school, if you don’t need to go out of Beijing during the holidays, then you can walk around the door. Nanluoguxiang, Houhai, Yandai Xiejie, walked down and walked around for 6 hours without a trace. Tired."

  “If you don’t travel out of the province, it’s a comprehensive consideration of your family’s and your own arrangements and the epidemic situation. Although you didn’t leave the province and only took a short trip in the province, you are very happy with your family.” Qi Xiao, a white-collar worker in Guiyang Meng went to Danzhai County in Qiandongnan Prefecture this holiday.

"It's your mood. Change a place to relax."

Danzhai Wanda Town.

Photo courtesy of the interviewee.

Self-driving tour: Great Northwest is hot

  Since this year’s National Day holiday is longer, and self-driving tours and RV tours have the advantages of small gatherings and large spaces, more and more tourists choose this way of travel.

  The Ministry of Culture and Tourism recently pointed out that based on relevant data, the proportion of self-driving trips during the National Day Mid-Autumn Festival is expected to reach more than 60%. Qinghai, Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Yunnan and other places have become hot destinations for self-driving tours.

  During the National Day, "Greater Northwest" tourism boomed, and "traveling through most of China" became a new trend of National Day tourism.

  According to data from China UnionPay, two days before the National Day holiday this year, western tours and long-distance tours are highly sought after.

Tibet, Xinjiang and Ningxia are the regions with the fastest year-on-year growth in consumption on the 1st and 2nd.

Among them, the amount of hotel and accommodation consumption in Tibet has more than doubled year-on-year, and the amount of catering consumption has increased by 49%; the amount of air ticketing and fueling consumption in Xinjiang has increased by more than 2 times.

  Weiwei, who works in a foreign company, is a travel blogger with more than 100,000 fans. She chose to travel with her husband and a friend on vacation. A group of 3 people traveled by car from Hebei to Xinjiang.

"We like traveling by car. We can arrange our own time and schedule. We are very free. After the epidemic, we have driven to many places by ourselves."

  "Along the way, we met the windmill field, admired the diverse landforms, and ran into the horses strolling in the sunset. It was so pleasant," Weiwei said.

Horse herd in the sunset.

Photo courtesy of the interviewee.

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No trip without an appointment

" has become a new habit

  The "double festival" holiday is still "no outing without appointment".

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism stated that under the premise of coordinating the prevention and control of the epidemic, this year's National Day holiday scenic spots should focus on orderly opening and booking tours.

  The data shows that, in addition to some open ticket-free scenic spots, 264 scenic spots in the country's 280 5A-level tourist attractions have established and implemented a time-sharing reservation system, accounting for about 94% of the total 5A-level scenic spots.

  Knowing and inquiring about measures such as epidemic prevention and control, opening up, ticket reservations, and passenger flow restrictions in tourist attractions in advance have become a new habit of people traveling.

Tickets for popular scenic spots such as the Forbidden City and Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes for the 8-day holiday have already been reserved before the festival, and tickets are hard to find.

  “It’s really important to make an appointment in advance”, Weiwei shared her experience: “A self-driving car in Kanas requires an appointment to drive into the scenic area, and we did not make an appointment in advance. When we traveled from Baihaba to Hemu It was impossible to cross Kanas, so it took a long detour, which took nearly two hours."

  Now, where are you "wave"?

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