Dali encountered a large number of room chargebacks, and the number of Spring Festival reservations dropped from 80% to less than 30%

“In recent days, the cancellation of orders has increased significantly, and the number of room reservations during the Spring Festival has dropped from 70% to 80% to less than 30%.” President of Dali Inn Association, supervisor of Dali Sun Palace Hotel Management Co., Ltd. Li Haizhong said. This is not the first time Dali has encountered large-scale room chargebacks this year. During the May 1st period, due to the outbreak of the epidemic in many places, the booking volume of Dali inns dropped from 40% to about 10%. About 60% of the inns around the ancient city closed down, and a large number of inns were transferred at low prices. | Related reading (China News Weekly)

Politics

How the large-scale guest room chargebacks in Dali happened can be seen from Xiaohongshu and other social media. When the national epidemic prevention and control policy was just released, many people did not realize that Omicron could “put everyone down” in such a short period of time, so they happily booked hotels and inns in Dali and Sanya. Traveling, among them some tourists who are eager to go out, are ready to have a fever in tourist destinations, which may be the reason for the surge in room bookings in Dali and other places some time ago. But one is that the virus spreads too fast, and many people are “knocked down” before they travel, so they can only cancel the room reservations. Second, seeing other people around them with mild symptoms will also cancel their bookings in fright and prepare to stay at home. “Yangkang” before traveling. Generally speaking, during the infection wave stage near the Spring Festival, the tourism industry should not recover on a large scale.

This article is reproduced from: https://www.fortunechina.com/jingxuan/25452.htm
This site is only for collection, and the copyright belongs to the original author.