May 30, 2021, Today's Beijing Business News reporter investigated and found that the air tickets to popular destinations during the Dragon Boat Festival have risen to different degrees. At the same time, many OTA platforms have also predicted the Dragon Boat Festival travel market.
Beijing Business News today reporter inquired in the Ctrip platform and found that, for example, the airfare for the Beijing-Sanya route on June 12 is 840 yuan, which is about 30% higher than the usual 600 yuan.
However, airfares from Beijing to other destinations have risen only slightly. For example, for the Beijing-Chengdu route, the airfare for the first day of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday was 450 yuan, about the same as the usual airfare.
In addition, the Beijing Business Daily reporter today also found that the airfare on the day before the Dragon Boat Festival holiday (June 11) was even higher than during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. Thus, it seems that the day before the holiday is expected to usher in a travel peak.
Not only that, where to go also made statistics on the first day of the Dragon Boat Festival long vacation train tickets. Where to go data shows that so far, Changsha, Shanghai, Chengdu are the three cities with the highest number of arrivals.
It is worth noting that, affected by the sales of train tickets on the first day of the Dragon Boat Festival long vacation, the booking volume and average price paid for air tickets departing from the Dragon Boat Festival long vacation have also increased to a certain extent. Up to now, the average price of air tickets for the Dragon Boat Festival holiday is 707 yuan, and the most popular route is Beijing-Chengdu.
In addition, Hornet's Nest Travel recently released the 2021 Dragon Boat Festival holiday travel trends based on the platform's big data. The data show that during this year's Dragon Boat Festival, domestic hotel and airfare prices rose. Among them, the average price of airfare during the Dragon Boat Festival was around 890 yuan, up 49% year-on-year. In terms of accommodation, the average price of hotels this year has risen 51 percent compared with the year before the epidemic.
Feng Rao, head of the Hornet's Nest Tourism Research Center, said that in Beijing, for example, airfares for the Dragon Boat Festival in some destinations were 30 percent cheaper than those for the May Day holiday, making it a good opportunity for a staggered trip.
Source: Today's Beijing Business News