The three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday ends on Sunday, and domestic travel is gradually breaking the ice.
The cross-provincial travel, “Bed and Breakfast” (B&B) or homestay, micro-vacations, and camping have become the most popular choices this year, according to the data of Trip.com, a leading Chinese online travel agency.
Data from Trip showed that during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, cross-provincial group tours accounted for nearly 80 percent of all group tour business, an increase of more than 20 percent compared with this year’s Tomb Sweeping Day holiday, and an increase of nearly 10 percent compared with this year’s Labor Day holiday, reaching the peak in nearly three months.
It may become the turning point for the domestic tourism market which is recovering steadily under the effective control of the COVID-19, Zhang Zhining, deputy director of Trip Research Institute’s Strategic Research Center pointed out.
The long-established tourism consumption potential of the Yangtze River Delta area and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region may be released at an accelerated pace in the summer tourism peak season.
