Domestic tours continue to be popular, with some cancelling Japanese tours and turning to places such as Singapore and Dubai, as well as the Mid Autumn Festival and National Day holiday

This year's Mid Autumn Festival and National Day holidays will be combined, with 8 consecutive days off from September 29th to October 6th. This super long holiday has prompted many people to plan their travel plans early.

The reporter learned from multiple tourism agencies that there are already applicants for long-term team tours in China during this year's National Day holiday, including Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan. In terms of outbound tourism, the popular Japanese tour during National Day has cooled down due to the nuclear sewage discharge incident, and some tourists have turned to places such as Singapore, Dubai, and New Zealand. Due to the high cost of air tickets and difficulties in visa reservations, the registration for the European and American direction during the National Day holiday is nearing completion, with little remaining balance.

Registration for domestic long-term destinations and internet famous cities has started

Continuing the popularity of summer outings, the popularity of domestic destinations during the Mid Autumn Festival and National Day holiday remains high. "The routes for our National Day holiday have been announced, and there have been inquiries and registrations in recent days. Currently, group tour registrations are mainly focused on domestic long-term routes such as' Ganqing, Ningyun, Guichuan ', and there are also many tourists who choose to travel freely in popular cities such as Xiamen, Chongqing, Chengdu, and Changsha with' flight tickets and hotels'." Shen Min, Vice President of Jinjiang Tourism Holdings Co., Ltd., believes that this year's Mid Autumn Festival National Day holiday lasts for 8 days and is in the golden autumn season with a suitable climate. It is expected that the popularity of travel will not be lower than that of summer, and the prices of flight tickets and hotels will also skyrocket.

The reception of tourists during the Spring and Autumn tourism National Day holiday in China is mainly focused on long-term destinations and popular leisure cities. Among them, cities like Lanzhou, Kashgar, and Urumqi, which place equal emphasis on natural scenery and cultural experiences, and have vast territories that can to some extent dilute population density, are quite popular; Classic tourist cities such as Sanya, Zhangjiajie, and Chongqing have attracted the attention of tourists of all ages.

Tourism industry insiders predict that the peak registration period for domestic tourist destinations during the National Day holiday is expected to be in the next two weeks. Bookings for some vacation hotels with better comprehensive conditions will start earlier, and some hotels have few basic room types left.

On the other hand, many tourists prefer to travel with good accommodation conditions and relatively relaxed schedules. Even if it's a group trip, it's usually a group trip with three to five friends or a few families. Along the way, enjoy delicious food, soak in hot springs, and take photos while enjoying the scenery, emphasizing the experience and participation. On this type of route, Jinjiang Tourism's "Food+High Star Hotel" series launched on Fujian and Guangdong routes is quite popular, with each group usually less than 20 people.

Some tourists have cancelled their trip to Japan and turned to other destinations

With the release of the third batch of countries and regions to resume outbound team tours on August 10th, various tourism agencies have successively launched related tourism products, and Japan has become the most popular destination on tourism platforms. But with the launch of Japan's plan to discharge pollutants into the sea on the afternoon of August 24th, the outbound tourism market has also begun to undergo changes.

Xu Weiwei, Vice President of Shanghai Jinjiang Tourism Holdings Co., Ltd., told reporters that there were only 14 days between Japan's entry into the third batch of team tour open list and the discharge of nuclear wastewater into the sea, and there were not as many Japanese tour products operated by travel agencies online. Therefore, although there were indeed tourists who had originally planned to travel to Japan who withdrew or postponed their trips, the number of people involved and the proportion of impact are not as large for now. In the long run, the nuclear wastewater discharge incident is expected to affect the subsequent registration of the Japanese tourism market, and the Mid Autumn and National Day holidays are no exception. The follow-up impact of this event is still being further observed by tourism institutions.

"We have previously received several high-quality customized Japanese tour groups, but they have now adjusted their travel directions to destinations such as Singapore, Dubai, and New Zealand." Xu Weiwei said that these boutique customized groups mainly travel in groups of two or three families. Due to concerns about food safety during the journey, tourists have changed their travel directions and turned to other destinations with similar or slightly higher travel budgets.

However, the price of traveling to Japan on National Day has not significantly decreased. The reporter found on the tourism platform that a Osaka 5-day free travel ticket, which is usually priced at 2999 yuan, skyrocketed to 6999 yuan when departing on September 28th, and further increased to 11999 yuan when departing on the first day of the Mid Autumn Festival and National Day holiday on September 29th. Tourism industry insiders say that although the discharge of nuclear wastewater into the sea has had an impact on tourist groups going to Japan, there are still many business, study abroad, and freelance tourists traveling to Japan. Despite the limited number of flights, ticket prices remain firm, which has increased travel costs.

On European and American routes, middle-aged and elderly tourists during this year's National Day holiday have a higher enthusiasm for registration. At present, European tourism products covering the National Day holiday have been basically sold out, including destinations such as Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, France, Italy, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, Iceland, Denmark, etc. In addition, after the release of the list of the third batch of countries and regions to resume team tours, the Türkiye team tour from Shanghai will start on September 12.

However, due to factors such as limited flights and difficulty in visa appointments, the number of tourists traveling to Europe and America during the National Day holiday will be very limited. Due to the inability to book a visa, some travel agencies had to cancel several European tour groups during the National Day holiday. In Southeast Asia, overseas destinations such as Bangkok, Phuket, and Singapore are more favored by parent-child customers due to their convenient transportation and visa requirements.

In addition, according to the relevant deployment of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council and the Frontier Health and Quarantine Law of the People's Republic of China and other laws and regulations, from 0:00 on August 30, when entry personnel make health declaration to the customs, they do not need to declare the results of novel coronavirus nucleic acid or antigen detection 48 hours before departure. This measure will further enhance the convenience of entry and exit, and benefit the Mid Autumn Festival and National Day travel market.