Overall, nearly 100 million people are expected to travel during this year's Dragon Boat Festival holiday. Comprehensive OTA booking data show that domestic first-tier cities and overseas four-hour flight circle is the mainstream of travel. The relevant person in charge of Meituan said, compared with this year's "May Day" holiday, during the Dragon Boat Festival, China's popular tourist cities TOP10 list is still concentrated in the rich tourism resources of the first-tier cities and network celebrities of new first-tier cities, Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu continue to dominate, and there is a Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Race traditional Wuhan and the "Spring City", the city of Wuhan. Wuhan, with its tradition of Dragon Boat Festival, and Jinan, the "Spring City", are new to the list, ranking ninth and tenth on the list of popular cities.
Overseas travel, short-haul neighboring countries and regions will become mainstream. According to the overseas accommodation data of several booking platforms, the popular destinations for overseas tours are concentrated in the 4-hour flight circle in Asia, with Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan as the popular choices. Among them, Macau and Phuket are popular among young consumers, while people over 30 with strong spending power prefer leisure cities such as Taipei and Osaka for in-depth tours.
Also worth noting is that, in order to reflect the new trend of airport catering "the same city, the same quality, the same price", during the holiday, the capital airport will be in Terminal 3 to carry out travelers to evaluate the selection of food and other activities. Industry insiders also pointed out that in earlier years, can afford to fly for high-end consumers, the price of food and beverage is not sensitive. In addition, due to the closure of the airport area, airport operators and catering operators will have a relatively large say. However, as airplanes become a popular mode of transportation, the price of food and beverage and other services at the airport needs to be more affordable.