How would you spend your 2020 Labor Day holiday under COVID-19 outbreak? This year marks the first five-day Labor Day holiday since 2008 when the once “golden week” was cut to three days. And based on big data, many people already have their holiday planned.
Statistics from Ctrip.com, a major online travel platform, show the coming holiday, from May 1 to 5, is expected to see a traffic surge of 353 percent over the same period in April.
Data from the travel platform Qunar.com published on April 20 also showed searches for May Day holiday hotel bookings increased 1.7 times between April 18 – 20 from a week earlier, after news was released that one’s health status would be mutually recognized in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Searches for train tickets in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region rose by 40 percent, with Beijing-Tianjin travel the hottest route. And bookings for hotels in Qinhuangdao jumped 2.6 times.
Post time: Apr-30-2020
