Dragon Boat Festival air ticket prices fell 30% year-on-year, and Dragon Boat Festival air ticket bookings increased 20% year-on-year

Today, Meituan released the Dragon Boat Festival travel big data. Affected by the epidemic, the overall airfare for the Dragon Boat Festival has dropped by 30% compared with last year, especially the popular routes in previous years have seen significant price drops. For safety reasons, many families choose to go on a self-driving trip during the Dragon Boat Festival. Data shows that the number of travel orders in Beijing during the Dragon Boat Festival has dropped compared with previous years.

Big data shows that the number of orders in Beijing has declined due to the epidemic, but travel in first-tier cities such as Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen is still active, and they are at the top of the list of popular source cities for airplanes and high-speed trains. At the same time, the vitality of tourism consumption in cities such as Chengdu, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Wuhan and Xi'an has been further released, accounting for half of the popular source cities.

In terms of air travel, data shows that due to the impact of the epidemic, the overall Dragon Boat Festival air ticket prices have dropped by 30% compared with last year, especially the popular routes in previous years have seen significant price reductions, resulting in a 20% year-on-year increase in Dragon Boat Festival air ticket bookings. Shanghai, Chengdu, Kunming, Chongqing and Xi'an are the top five most popular destinations for air travel. Among them, the number of tickets departing from Shanghai to Shenzhen is the highest, followed by Chengdu, Chongqing and Guangzhou.
In terms of train travel, the number of train reservations during the Dragon Boat Festival has increased significantly compared to the May Day holiday. High-speed rail bookings to Chengdu, Zhengzhou and Guangzhou rank the top three in the country, followed by Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Shenzhen and Changsha. Among them, the order volume of newly opened high-speed rail lines increased, and the train ticket bookings for Datong-Xi'an line, Chengdu-Guiyang line, Zhangjiakou-Hohhot line and other lines increased significantly.

This year's Dragon Boat Festival holiday is concentrated on the weekend. Many office workers will choose to "take 3 days off and rest 8 days" to avoid peak travel and enjoy the 8-day extra-long holiday. Big data shows that the peak travel and return times during the Dragon Boat Festival are concentrated around June 20 and June 27 respectively, and one-third of users will choose to take time off to travel.

Affected by the epidemic and for safety reasons, many families will choose to go on a self-driving trip during the Dragon Boat Festival, and the proportion of users who take time off for medium- and long-distance self-driving has increased. The age of the travelers is concentrated between 22 and 45 years old, and tourists from cities such as Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou and Tianjin account for a large proportion. Popular medium and long-distance self-driving routes are mainly concentrated in Qinghai, Gansu, ***, Yunnan, *** and other regions.