Dazhong Poster News reporter Li Jinshan reported from Jinan.
Nearly a month after the "Chinese New Year in Place" initiative was issued, as more and more passengers responded to the call, the reporter checked the data on the Qunar platform and found that the bookings of air tickets during the Spring Festival travel period continued to decline, and as of January 25, 2021, the average payment for air ticket bookings** dropped to 65136 yuan, the lowest average payment for air ticket pre-sale before the Spring Festival in the past five years.
At the same time, the popular routes are no longer "hot", and the leisure and vacation products around the city are selling well, and this year's Spring Festival market has shifted from long-distance tourism to local tourism.
As more and more passengers respond to the call, the booking** of air tickets during the Spring Festival travel on the Qunar platform continues to decline, and it is difficult to find a ticket in previous years, and this year's 1% discount ticket price hit the lowest in 5 years.
As of January 25, the average air ticket payment on the Qunar platform during this year's Spring Festival travel was only 65136 yuan. This ** decreased by nearly 100 yuan compared with the 2021 Spring Festival pre-sale air tickets ** in the same period last week, and nearly 200 yuan cheaper than the 2019 Spring Festival travel period, setting the lowest average air ticket pre-sale payment before the Spring Festival in 5 years**.
The reduction in passenger travel has also made some popular routes during the Spring Festival travel in previous years no longer "hot". The reporter found from the Qunar platform that the most popular routes during the Spring Festival in previous years were cold.
Hard-to-find routes** such as Beijing-Harbin and Beijing-Sanya have cooled down. Judging from the current search ** of the Qunar platform, the minimum payment for the Beijing-Harbin route departing on February 29 (February 10) (including machine fuel) fell below 1,000 yuan, which was only 5 of the full price5% off. In previous years, the Beijing-Sanya route, which had to be grabbed for business class, had to pay the minimum payment** for the day before the Spring Festival holiday was only 610 yuan, which was only 1 of the full price7% off.
Not only the popular routes departing from Beijing, but also the minimum payment for the Shanghai-Harbin ticket with machine fuel for the 29th of February (February 10th) is only 439 yuan, which is only 2 yuan for the full economy class3% off.
From the perspective of the country's popular routes, the average payment of many routes** has decreased to varying degrees compared with the Spring Festival, and the average payment of Beijing-Chengdu Spring Festival this year is only 61872 yuan, a decrease of nearly 400 yuan compared with the Spring Festival travel period in 2019.
Compared with the "cooling" of large transportation bookings such as air tickets, in the past week, the reporter found that the search volume of local scenic spots during the Spring Festival on the Qunar platform increased by 7% compared with the previous week, and the search volume of wine + scenery increased by 4%. As more and more people choose to spend the New Year on the spot, resort hotels and B&Bs around the city with beautiful environment are selling well.
Liu Han, vice president of Qunar, said that in the spring of this year, the local New Year will become a trend, and the current products related to local travel have become the most popular tourism products.