CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- The Dragon Boat Festival holiday saw the first travel spree as this summer approaches. According to the Vane for the Travel during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday 2024 released by Fliggy, this year’s Dragon Boat Festival holiday has more bookings per capita for domestic and outbound tours than the holiday in 2023, which indicates that consumers have more choices during a trip.

From the prospective of destination selection, Deyang, Chenzhou, Kaifeng, Jingdezhen, Zhaoqing, Shaoxing, Mount Huangshan, Shangrao, Bortala, Jieyang and other "dark horse destinations" have seen the fastest growth in number. Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Chongqing, Wuhan, Xi'an etc. are among the popular destinations for domestic tours during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday this year.

Chongqing is seeing an increase in the car rental booking of almost 70% during this year’s Dragon Boat Festival holiday compared with the same period last year. Tourists from Chongqing are highly enthusiastic about traveling overseas during the holiday period, with the number of bookings for international flights surging nearly 80% year-on-year. Chongqing, Shaanxi, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shanghai, etc. are popular sources of tourists travelling to Chongqing during the holiday period.

Moreover, during this year's Dragon Boat Festival holiday, consumers have become more prominent in pursuing the flexibility and richness of tourism products. For example, car rental is still the most-favored. Duku Highway in the northwestern part of China resumed traffic in June, Altay became a new trendy tourism destination thanks to a new hit TV show, while in the southwestern region, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces has entered their peak seasons for avoiding summer heat for the mild temperature, starting a craze for self-driving during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. Date form Fliggy showed that some hot destinations such as the southwest of Guizhou Province, Aksu, Wuxi, etc. saw an average over two-fold increase in car rental bookings over the previous year.

The growth in the consumption of services such as self-driving and chartered car around the island can be seen not only at home but also abroad. Mr. Liu, a college graduate from Guangdong has booked a car rental to Malaysia for the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. “We plan to rent a car to travel between Malacca, Kuala Lumpur and Penang to find the most down-to-earth night markets and restaurants most favored by the locals. It is more cost-effective that four of us as a group share the costs,” said he. Date from Fliggy also showed it saw the booking volumes of overseas car rental and chartered services on Fliggy up 3-fold and 1-fold respectively year-on-year. (Translated by Hu Chuanmin, Fathom Language Limited)