Today is May 1st, and the holiday season has officially begun. According to the prediction of railway 12306 pre-sale data, today will be the peak of railway passenger flow during the five days of the "May Day" holiday.
This is a heat map based on the pre-sale data of 12306 train tickets, the darker the red, the more people who will take the train to the city today, and the darker the blue, the more people who will have a net outflow from the city. Central cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Zhengzhou, and Xi'an are cities with large net outflows.
The red color, which represents the net inflow of tourists, accounts for the vast majority, reaching 80% of the total number of cities, and even 10% higher than yesterday. Among these cities, cities such as Luoyang, Chaozhou, Dali, Fuyang and Handan have become destinations with large net inflows of tourists, which means that more people are moving from central cities to small and medium-sized cities on the first day of the holiday.
Luoyang once again became the city with the largest net inflow of tourists
With its unique historical sites and traditional cultural customs, Luoyang not only attracts tourists from surrounding cities, but also Beijing, Xi'an, Shanghai, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Lanzhou and Shenzhen are also the main sources of tourists during the "May Day" holiday.
A number of routes welcomed more inter-provincial travelers today
In addition, the data also shows that routes from Beijing to Tianjin, Chongqing to Chengdu, Shanghai to Nanjing, Beijing to Shanghai, Xi'an to Chengdu, and Shanghai to Wuhan will welcome more inter-provincial travelers today.
The number of advance bookings for domestic hotels and other hotels nearly doubled year-on-year
This year's "May Day" holiday, tourists' enthusiasm for travel is high, Qunar tourism data shows that up to now, the "May Day" holiday domestic hotels, ticketing and other advance bookings have nearly doubled year-on-year. After analyzing the year-on-year growth data of 335 destinations on the platform, we found the most popular niche tourist destinations for this year's May Day.
On this heat map, the top 20 niche destination cities are marked, and the size of the circle indicates the level of growth, with hotel and ticket bookings in Hechi, Guangxi, ranking first, nearly quadrupling year-on-year, while these 20 cities in 10 different provinces have more than doubled year-on-year.
Niche destinations offer a variety of experiences for tourists
An analysis of tourists' discussions and comments on social media revealed that these niche destination cities are not only rich in natural landscapes, cultural attractions, but also diverse cuisines.
Go to Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province to climb Wugong Mountain and eat lotus duck blood; go to Suqian, Jiangsu Province to visit King Xiang's hometown and visit Hongze Lake Wetland Park; go to Yuncheng, Shanxi Province to visit Yongle Palace and see the colorful salt lake. Lesser-known destinations offer a more diverse range of experiences for travelers.
Enthusiasm for outbound travel is high Single-day outbound travel has reached a new high
During this year's "May Day" holiday, people's enthusiasm for outbound travel is also very high. Qunar travel data shows that the number of international air ticket bookings departing on May 1 hit a new single-day high for May Day, an increase of two percent compared with 2019.
Judging from the air ticket booking data, Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, the United States, the Philippines, and Australia are the popular destination countries for this year's "May Day". Among them, due to the decline in the yen exchange rate, the cost performance of travel to Japan has improved, and more people prefer Japan as a popular destination, and the data shows that the number of air ticket bookings to Japan has increased by more than 60% compared with 2019.
More than 1,000 cities around the world have Chinese tourists booking hotels
This "May Day", the global footprint of Chinese tourists has also been more widely distributed, and hotel booking data shows that in more than 1,000 cities around the world, the number of hotels booked by Chinese tourists has nearly doubled year-on-year.
More outbound tourists are looking to small cities abroad, experiencing the traditional Japanese tea ceremony in Uji, Japan, which is known as the "hometown of matcha", and experiencing powder snow in Zermatt, Switzerland, where you can ski all year round.
[Source: CCTV News Client]
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