Tourists visit an ancient street in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, June 14, 2023. (PHOTO / XINHUA)
BEIJING – Tourist trips in China are expected to hit 100 million during this year's Dragon Boat Festival holiday, breaking through the figure recorded during the same period in 2019, the CCTV reported on Wednesday.
During the three-day holiday, the average prices of hotel rooms and domestic air tickets are lower than that in this year's May Day holiday, said the CCTV.
Beijing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Qingdao are typical popular destinations.
Tourism consumption is expected to reach 37 billion yuan ($5.15 billion) during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, increasing 43% from a year earlier
Tourism consumption is expected to reach 37 billion yuan ($5.15 billion) during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, increasing 43 percent from a year earlier, said Dai Bin, president of the China Tourism Academy.
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The China Tourism Academy pointed out that the circulation and interactive flow of tourists in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Yangtze River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and Chengdu-Chongqing region are more obvious, and a three-hour golden tourism circle will be formed around these major cities.
The popularity of destinations such as Beidaihe, Songshan and Conghua is gradually increasing.
Short trips such as suburb areas or destinations are the go-to for travelers during the three-day holiday and self-driving, individual travelers, families, parent-child, summer heat escape, will become the keywords during the holiday, Dai Bin said.
Separately, China will see a boom in railway trips during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, China State Railway Group Co, Ltd said Wednesday.
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Around 71 million railway trips will be made from Wednesday to Sunday, with the average daily railway trips reaching 14.2 million, the group said.
A high-speed train heading to Chengdu of southwest China's Sichuan Province departs from Chongqing North Railway Station in southwest China's Chongqing, June 11, 2019. (PHOTO / XINHUA)
The passenger flow will peak on Thursday, with about 16 million railway trips expected to be made.
China's railways are maximizing their transportation potential and increasing capacity to satisfy people's travel needs, while improving service quality to ensure that passengers have better experiences, the group said.
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The Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanwu Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar.