China News Service, Beijing, February 11 (Reporter Liu Liang) According to data released by Qunar, China's leading tourism platform, on the 11th, many places in China will usher in a tourism boom during the Spring Festival in 2024.
According to data from the Qunar platform, there will be no obvious travel trough during the Spring Festival holiday in 2024, and the number of air ticket bookings for travel from the second to fourth day of the Lunar New Year will increase by 60% compared with the same period in 2023, of which the second day of the Lunar New Year will have the highest travel volume; The top 10 most popular destinations are Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Kunming, Haikou, Xi'an and Hangzhou.
From the perspective of short-distance travel, there is more flow of tourists in the "two-hour high-speed rail circle", such as the flow between Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Changzhutan, Chengdu-Chongqing metropolitan area and other regions, making the big cities that were slightly "deserted" in previous years more popular this year.
On February 10, in Nanjing, Jiangsu, tourists played in front of the large dragon lantern arranged in the old street in the south of the city. It is the first day of the first month of the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese lunar calendar, and the ancient city of Nanjing has a strong New Year's flavor. Photo by China News Service reporter Yang Bo.
The Chinese New Year tourism boom has driven hotel bookings. According to the data, in the first two days of the holiday, hotel bookings in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen increased by more than 50% compared with the same period in 2023, and bookings in Nanjing, Wuhan, Suzhou and other cities also increased by more than 30%.
According to the age group screening data of travel passengers on the Qunar platform, Chengdu ranks first in the "favorite city of the 'post-00s'", and Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Chongqing and other cities are on the list; Beijing, the "favorite city of the 'post-90s'" ranked first, and Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Kunming, Xi'an, Hangzhou and other cities were also loved by the "post-90s"; Popular destinations for families are Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Haikou, Hangzhou, etc.
According to the platform search data, the tickets for many well-known scenic spots such as the Forbidden City, Lama Temple, Terracotta Warriors and Horses, and Hunan Museum have been booked out before the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. The Qinhuai River Lantern Festival in Nanjing, Jiangsu, the Yu Garden Lantern Festival in Shanghai, the Xi'an City Wall Lantern Festival and other New Year's lantern festivals drove the booking volume of scenic spots in the first two days of the Spring Festival to increase by more than 50% year-on-year. (ENDS).