Poster News reporter Li Jinshan reports.
With less than two weeks to go until New Year's Day 2024, the peak holiday booking period has arrived. On December 19, Fliggy released the "2024 New Year's Day Holiday Travel Vane", which shows that as of December 18, the number of New Year's Day holiday travel bookings has increased nearly 4 times year-on-year, with Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Harbin, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Nanjing, Changsha and other popular destinations for New Year's Day holiday travel.
The three-day holiday is a rare leisure vacation time for parent-child users, and the fast and punctual "high-speed rail tour" is the first choice. At present, both outbound and return train tickets for the New Year's Day holiday are on sale. According to the data, the number of holiday train ticket bookings has increased significantly year-on-year, with Beijing-Harbin, Shanghai-Nanjing, Shenzhen-Guangzhou, Guangzhou-Changsha, Chengdu-Chongqing, etc. being popular "high-speed rail tours" routes, and most of the tickets for popular dates have been booked out so far. In addition, air tickets to popular destinations such as Harbin, Urumqi, Sanya, Kunming, and Guangzhou during the New Year's Day holiday are also hot, and have reached a high level.
Demand for popular routes and destinations has skyrocketed, but there are still plenty of treasure destinations worth "picking up" during the holidays. The data shows that there are still a lot of "cabbage prices" for air tickets on the first day of the New Year's Day holiday and the day before, such as Zhengzhou-Yinchuan, Xi'an-Yichang, Kunming-Lhasa on December 28, Beijing-Xining, Tianjin-Changchun, etc. on December 31, there are still 1 to 2 discounts, ** no more than 400 yuan or even only more than 100 yuan of air tickets on sale, which is lower than the second-class ticket price of high-speed rail.
The data also shows that among the popular destinations for this year's New Year's Day holiday, Nanping in Fujian, Weifang in Shandong, Anyang in Henan, Baotou in Inner Mongolia, Baoding in Hebei, Qiqihar in Heilongjiang, Yuncheng in Shanxi, Suining in Sichuan, Anqing in Anhui, Liupanshui in Guizhou and other places, the average price paid so far is significantly lower than last year, and travelers who have not yet made holiday travel plans can still buy more cost-effective products.
On New Year's Day this year, young people are full of New Year's Eve rituals. "We are going to welcome the first rays of sunshine in 2024!Xiao Chang, who is studying in Nanjing, told reporters that she and her roommate have arranged a trip to Mount Tai during the holiday, "by the way, go to Qufu to pray for the upcoming final exam." "In addition to mountaineering, skiing, hot springs, listening to concerts, and watching fireworks shows are also mainstream New Year's Eve travel options for young people. Fliggy's data shows that in the past two weeks, the popularity of New Year's Eve travel, including the above methods, has increased by about 10 times compared with last year.
Recently, some outbound travel destinations have launched visa facilitation policies superimposed on New Year's Eve, and outbound travel has ushered in a good start to 2024 during the New Year's Day holiday. According to the data, up to now, the number of outbound travel bookings has increased by nearly 10 times year-on-year, with Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia, Singapore, South Korea, Macau, New Zealand, and the Philippines being popular destinations.