Yesterday (April 16),
The day before the May Day holiday
Train tickets go on sale on April 30.
In the afternoon of the same day,
Entries related to "12306 seconds".
rushed to the first place in the hot search.
Netizens said:
It's really hard to grab a ticket, waiting for a second
Medium- and long-term tourism has become the mainstream
Tickets for some popular routes are in seconds
Data from a number of online travel platforms shows
The tourism popularity of this year's "May Day" holiday
On the basis of last year's high level, it is still "stable and increasing".
Different from short-distance travel during the Qingming holiday, medium- and long-term travel has become the mainstream of the "May Day" holiday, with domestic long-distance travel orders accounting for 56%.
From the perspective of booking on ticketing platforms, the popular destinations are Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Xi'an, Wuhan, Changsha, Zhengzhou, and Hangzhou. The flow of passengers between big cities and tourist cities is more frequent, and the difficulty of purchasing tickets is not lower than that of the Spring Festival.
On April 16, the train tickets departing the day before the "May Day" holiday went on sale, and the tickets for popular routes such as Beijing-Luoyang, Beijing-Zibo, and Beijing-Changchun were "seconds", while the train tickets from first-tier cities such as Beijing-Xi'an, Shanghai-Wuhan to core cities in the central and western regions were the most in demand.
From the perspective of train ticket reservations, as the weather warms, northern coastal cities such as Qingdao, Weihai, Yantai, Rizhao in Shandong, Dalian in Liaoning, Qinhuangdao and Tianjin in Hebei Province have gradually ushered in a tourism boom, and the number of train ticket reservations has increased by 3 times compared with the Qingming holiday;
Tianshui Malatang Source: Gansu release
Tianshui Malatang, Xilin Gol skewers, Baoding donkey meat fire, Liuzhou snail noodles and other special delicacies, but also for their cities to attract a large number of tourists, April 30 Lanzhou-Tianshui, Beijing-Baoding, Guangzhou-Liuzhou and other lines, many train tickets have been sold out.
The ticket is not in seconds
12306 official response
In the face of netizens' comments that "you will never be able to grab tickets", the official customer service of 12306 responded: "During the May Day period, there are more tickets from the departure station to the final station, and fewer tickets at the intermediate station. If, in a few days, there are still a lot of tickets from the departure station to the intermediate station, a portion of the ticket will be allocated to each station again. ”
The Beijing Railway Customer Service Center also said: "The tickets released by the passing car are indeed not as many as the tickets for the whole train. Generally, the whole journey ticket will be released first, and the intermediate station will release the ticket according to the proportion, so the ticket amount is smaller. ”
The staff member also said that if the whole ticket is not sold out, the proportion will be readjusted within 24 hours before departure and the ticket will be released again.
Xi'an has become a popular domestic destination on May Day
According to the "2024 May Day" Tourism Trend Insight Report just released by Ctrip, Xi'an is still hot, not only continuing to be on the list of the top ten popular destination cities on May Day, but also capturing the hearts of young people, ranking seventh among post-00 keen destination cities, and ninth among popular destination cities for inbound tourism.
During the May Day holiday, Xi'an's main tourist destinations are Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Chongqing and Hohhot, while the most popular destinations for Xi'an tourists are Chongqing, Chengdu, Beijing, Wuhan and Shanghai.
In terms of outbound travel, the number of outbound travel bookings in Xi'an during the May Day holiday increased by 141% year-on-year, with Japan, Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, the United States, Indonesia, Australia, France, and Vietnam being popular outbound countries. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and other "Belt and Road" countries have a higher year-on-year growth rate of orders.
In terms of inbound tourism, the domestic destinations favored by overseas tourists include Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Qingdao, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Xi'an and Kunming. During the May Day holiday, inbound travel bookings increased by 130% year-on-year, and Xi'an's inbound travel bookings increased by 200% year-on-year, and Xi'an's main inbound tourist sources were the United States, Japan, Russia, Canada, and South Korea.
Domestic air tickets have increased by about 40% compared with Qingming
According to the ticketing platform, 15 days before the holiday, the number of advance bookings for air tickets during the "May Day" period has exceeded the same period in 2023.
From Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Tianjin and other major cities, the average price paid for air tickets to tourist cities is higher, and some flights on popular routes such as Beijing-Chengdu and Shanghai-Kunming have been raised to full price.
There are also many routes where prices have decreased. The price of air tickets from Kunming to Chengdu, Shanghai to Kunming, Xiamen to Shanghai, Tianjin to Chengdu and Beijing to Sanya has dropped significantly, down by about 30% year-on-year.
However, a report by a ticketing platform pointed out that although the overall average price of domestic air tickets decreased slightly year-on-year, it increased by about 40% compared with this year's Qingming holiday.