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Original Title: Qingming May Day Ticket Reservations Are Hot! Is the “Compensatory Return” coming?
Chinanews customer, Beijing, March 24 (Reporter Li Jinlei) As the weather warms and policies relax, demand for family visits and “Chinese New Year on the spot” trips is expected to rise. during the next Qingming Festival the “May Day” holiday.
Data from various online travel platforms shows that the Qingming Festival and “May 1” holiday travel product reservations are booming, and the number of airline ticket reservations exceeds the same period in 2019. Airline ticket prices have also rebounded and prices for some popular routes have risen by more than double digits.
The epidemic prevention situation is good and the travel policy is relaxed.
At present, the prevention and control of the internal epidemic has maintained a good momentum. The National Health Commission stated on the 21st that the country’s low-risk areas have a “green code” for healthy access, and can transit in an orderly manner under the premise of normal temperature measurement and good personal protection. Overweight without authorization.
Some policy restrictions have also been relaxed. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism recently issued a notice clarifying that areas with low epidemic risk will no longer impose uniform restrictions on the proportion of theaters and other performance venues, Internet service venues and entertainment venues that receive consumers. The party committees and the governments of all the provinces (autonomous communities and municipalities) will be responsible for the prevention of local epidemics, control the situation yourself.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism also announced the “Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Epidemic Prevention and Control Measures for the Reopening of Tourist Attractions (Revised in March 2021)”. The upper limit of tourist reception in tourist attractions is determined by the province (regional, municipal) parties and governments based on the local situation of prevention and control of epidemics. Make “one size fits all”. The reporter warned that in the new version of the guide, the previous version of the guide was canceled, which said that “the number of tourists should not exceed 75% of the maximum load capacity.”
Beijing has recently made it clear that people from low-risk areas in China will enter Beijing, and travelers from areas around Beijing will no longer check nucleic acid certificates when entering Beijing. services will resume in Beijing.
Reserve hot! Is the “Compensatory Return” coming?
With the relaxation of the travel policy, coupled with warmer weather and warm spring flowers, the build-up of nostalgia in the “New Years on the spot” will usher in a concentrated release, and the “compensation homecoming.” may be coming.
From a train ticket sales perspective, tickets in some popular directions are currently more popular than during the Spring Festival. According to media reports, on the first day of the grave-sweeping holiday, the high-speed train ticket that took only more than 4 hours from Beijing West Railway Station to Wuhan Station was instantly stolen; Less than 5 minutes after driving, Beijing West Railway Station to Zhengzhou East There are no more tickets for the 29 trains at the station.
From the perspective of air ticket sales, Lan Xiang, dean of the Qunar Big Data Research Institute, said that as of now, the amount of air tickets booked for Ching Ming holidays in 2021 is 1.3 times higher than Ching Ming’s. period in 2019. “May Day” vacation ticket bookings have also surpassed 2019.
According to Ctrip’s Ching Ming Festival forecast report for 2021, from the current travel product reservation situation, the number of tourists outside the Ching Ming Festival is expected to return to the same period in 2019. reach 100 million . The Ching Ming holiday is expected to usher in the first small spike in interprovincial travel this year.
Airline ticket prices for some popular routes rebounded dramatically
Due to the strong desire to travel of the passengers and the strong demand for travel, the air tickets for the Ching Ming Festival and May 1 have returned to their pre-epidemic levels due to the influence of supply and demand, and fares for some popular routes have recovered strongly.
At this time last year, it was difficult to find air tickets for two or three hundred yuan everywhere. Fliggy data shows that airfare prices for Qingming and May 1 have been reset to the same period in 2019. The average ticket price for May 1 has reached 830 yuan, compared to 2019. It also increased by 30%.
Ctrip data shows that, so far, during the “May 1” period, domestic economy class airline fares have risen 11% year-on-year. Among them, the popular Shanghai-Sanya, Beijing-Sanya and Shanghai-Chongqing travel routes has increased 46% year-on-year., 112%, 16%.
“Compared to the prices of air tickets during the epidemic, air tickets for the Ching Ming Festival and the May Day holiday are very expensive.” “I looked up the prices of plane tickets for the May Day holiday. I think it is better to lie down at home.” Yes, netizens complained about the increase in the price of tickets.
New archaeological discoveries once again brought fire to Sanxingdui
Unlike previous trips to the Qingming Festival, cultural and historical sites have attracted special attention this year. Affected by recent archaeological discoveries, the search volume for tickets for the Sanxingdui Scenic Area in Sichuan has increased considerably.
As of March 22, the search volume of the Sanxingdui scenic spot on the Qunar platform increased 3.4 times compared to the same period in 2019, and the popularity is expected to continue until the Qingming holidays.
Ctrip data also shows that the number of tourists who booked tickets to the Sanxingdui Museum during the weekend of March 20-21 increased almost 12 times compared to the previous weekend. Many tourists did not hesitate to fly to see the mysterious “ancient Shu civilization”. Judging from the source of the tickets, about 50% of the tourists came from Sichuan province; In addition, tourists from Jiangsu, Beijing, Guangdong, Chongqing and Shanghai booked most of the tickets.
The data from the tourism platform also shows that popular destinations for cross-province travel during the Ching Ming Festival are: Sanya, Lijiang, Lhasa, Kunming, Zhangjiajie, Urumqi, Chongqing, Guilin, Huangshan and Linzhi.
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