Sina Science and Technology News May 5 noon news, where announced the May Day travel data. Chinese tourists travel in 1035 cities around the world, and international air tickets and hotel bookings reached an all-time high during the May Day holiday this year.
The five-day holiday makes tourists travel longer. Labour Day holiday is in the Middle East and Europe.DragontigergatenetflixThe popular direction of outbound travel. On the Qunar platform, air ticket bookings in Saudi Arabia and Egypt in the Middle East have more than tripled, while those in the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Qatar have increased by more than 50%.DragontigergatenetflixIn Europe, air bookings in the United Kingdom, Hungary, Ireland, Spain and Croatia doubled.
Qunar data show that during the May Day period, the popular destinations TOP10 are Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, the United States, the Philippines and Australia. Air ticket bookings to Japan have increased by more than 60% compared with 2019, ranking first among the top 10 destinations.
According to domestic data, May 1 hotel bookings in Zibo, Tianshui, Liuzhou, Yanji, Suzhou, Luoyang, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Weihai, Taizhou and other cities have more than doubled compared with the same period last year. Even hotels in Tianshui, Fuzhou and Luoyang have sold out of popular rooms in the first ten days of the holiday.
Hotel bookings in domestic popular cities during the May Day holiday this year increased significantly compared with the same period last year, with Nanchang, Huangshan, Shangrao, Yangzhou, Shaoxing, Changzhou, Luoyang, Taiyuan, Taizhou and Quanzhou as hot cities for hotel booking growth, with an average increase of 70%.
Compared with 2023, the average price paid by May 1 hotels this year is the same. The prices of two-star, three-star and four-star hotels with the highest increase in bookings have declined. Among them, Samsung hotels fell by 9% and two-star hotels by 7%.