China is bracing for another bumper travel period during the upcoming National Day holiday, with a jump in sales of train and plane tickets, and with long-haul and overseas trips proving especially popular, according to transportation authorities and tourism agencies.
About 190 million passenger trips are expected to be made on the railway network during the holiday travel period from Sept 27 to Oct 8, compared with 72 million trips during the same period in 2022 and 138 million in 2019. To cater to travellers’ needs, the railway operator said that it will increase seating capacity by 18.5 per cent compared with the same period in 2019, on top of implementing a peak operating schedule.
About 14,000 flights are planned daily on domestic routes, up 18 per cent from 2019, and the number of daily passenger trips is also expected to rise by 17 per cent compared with 2019. China has also resumed passenger flights with about 90 per cent of the countries it flew to before the pandemic.
Tourism packages and hotel rooms are also selling briskly, according to a report released earlier this month by Ctrip, a major online travel agency.
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