CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- This New Year’s holiday has been the first holiday after China ended its travel and quarantine restrictions. Data from most tourism platforms show that the demand for medium-distance tours and long-distance tours saw a rapid recovery and the number of trans-provincial tourists significantly grew during the holiday. With the increase in short-distance and medium-distance tours, Chongqing was among the top domestic destinations.

Countdown parties boost the economy, and Chongqing leads the list of popular destinations

Despite the light rain, many tourists came to the Monument to the People's Liberation (Jiefangbei) to wait for the New Year on the evening of December 31.

Data from most platforms show that Chongqing was among the top domestic destinations. According to Ctrip, Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Changsha, Shenzhen, and Xi'an were the top ten popular tourist destinations on New Year's Eve, with larger numbers of night tours. Data from Qunar.com presents the top ten tourist destinations during the New Year holiday: Chengdu, Chongqing, Sanya, Haikou, Shanghai, Kunming, Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Xi'an. Feizhu platform shows that Chongqing ranked fifth in terms of tourist popularity, following Shanghai, Chengdu, Beijing, and Sanya.

“Healing tours” for those recovering from COVID-19 became popular, and these places were favored by Chongqing people

Many cities have experienced the peak of COVID-19 infections and most of the people recovering from COVID-19 “rewarded” themselves with “healing tours”, stimulating tourism consumption, according to public reports.

Where did people in Chongqing love to go? According to the data from Feizhu, the popular tourist destinations for Chongqing tourists were Guangdong, Hainan, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Beijing, Yunnan, etc.

"Healing tours" have become the favorite of those recovering from COVID-19, especially tours to the southern and island cities with warm climates. Compared with previous years, the popularity of Sanya, Zhuhai, Xishuangbanna, Dali, Xiamen, Haikou, Tengchong, and Beihai dramatically increased.

Outbound tourism made a good start, with more than twice the number of air tickets booked

As quarantine measures for inbound tourism will be ended soon on January 8 and the international fights have progressively recovered, many keen travelers chose outbound tourism during the New Year holiday. Ctrip data shows that the number of cross-border air ticket bookings for New Year's Day increased by 145% year on year, while the cross-border air ticket bookings for the Spring Festival saw an increase of more than 260% year on year.

Which overseas destinations were most popular? Ctrip data shows that from New Year's Day to the eve of the Spring Festival, China’s Taipei and Macao, Seoul, Singapore, China’s Hong Kong, Bangkok, Tokyo, London, Los Angeles, and Sydney are among the top 10 cross-border destinations. (Translated by Yuki, Fathom Language Limited)