It was put on the shelves overnight, and it was full in an instant! Outbound travel during the Spring Festival is so popular that Thailand’s bookings soared nearly 20 times

“In order to welcome this day, we have been looking forward to it for three years.” Jiang Wen, CEO of Ctrip Group Tours, said that once the notice of the opening of outbound and group tours was issued, the search volume for outbound and group tours on the Ctrip platform instantly increased by 5 times, driving The popularity of overseas destinations has increased by 330%, with Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, and Cambodia having the highest search volume. According to data from Fliggy, as of now, the number of bookings for outbound travel-related products for the Spring Festival in 33 countries and regions has more than doubled year-on-year. Among them, the most searched overseas destination country is Thailand, and the search volume for Thailand-related travel products has increased by 430% in an instant. %. | Related reading (Daily Economic News)

Pedestrians on a reverse journey

In the past three years of the epidemic, many people’s passports have expired, but when they go to renew, they are often dissuaded from “not leaving the country unless necessary”, and then refuse to renew their passports. Previously, a certain Internet celebrity went to Qatar to watch the World Cup with a passport that was still valid, but found that the passport had been canceled by the location when she appeared on the scene.

The previous strict epidemic prevention policy restricted people to the city where they lived. Traveling across provinces or even cities is an extravagant hope, let alone going abroad. After the opening of group tours, individual independent travel will soon be opened. The biggest attraction of the tourism market in 2023 will undoubtedly be the outbound travel market.

The liberalization of outbound travel is undoubtedly an important symbol of China’s opening up, and leading companies like Ctrip will also usher in an opportunity for comprehensive recovery. In 2019, Ctrip’s revenue will be more than 35 billion yuan, while in 2020 and 2021 it will be 18.3 billion yuan and 20 billion yuan respectively, which is almost cut in half. The whole year of 2022 is expected to be the same as that of 2021, but it is difficult to recover to 2019 this year level, but the industry also gave an estimate of 30 billion yuan.

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