The nine-day “longest-ever” spring holidays had ended and most had returned to work. However, red star journalists have noted that there are also a number of workmen who have chosen to travel or take leave in the period after spring holidays, using, for example, transfers, annual holidays, etc。
This is the wrong way to enjoy the benefits of a “bone break”. On 25 february, red star journalists noted that, in beijing to sanya, for example, direct tickets of $300 could be purchased in recent days, while the cost of air tickets on that route was generally over $1,000 before and after spring holidays。
There's a lot of tickets in beijing to sanya in the last few days
After the festival, the plane jumped
From beijing to sanya, it's $320 low
Mr. King, who worked in beijing, told red star journalists on 25 days that he had been on duty at the company for many days during spring holidays and that, when the other colleagues returned to work, the company had given him two additional days of leave in addition to his transfer. “in addition to the days spent on spring shift, i now have a week of continuous leave.” mr. King indicated that he had also asked for tickets to travel from beijing these days after the spring holidays, “almost half the price, and some even about a third, of the spring holidays”
Data on where the platform went indicate that the average domestic flight fare went down from the top on 23 february to a low point on 13 march. The average ticket prices on the hot route have generally fallen by between 10 and 50 per cent in the late march season. Among the popular routes in which the price of airline tickets fell significantly, shenzhen to beijing was about $762, or 36 per cent; shanghai to guangzhou was about $460, or 50 per cent; shanghai to shenzhen was about $563, or 35 per cent. In addition, the average one-way fare is only about $500 on multiple “high-value” routes, from lijiang to harbin, nanning to fuku and beijing to compliance。
In addition, the hot south of the sea during the spring holidays has experienced a simultaneous sharp fall in air ticket prices, which by the end of march now stood at about $320 lower in beijing to sanya, 66 per cent lower in average payments than in spring, 310 lower in beijing to the sea, 58 per cent lower in average, and 479 lower in shanghai to sanya, 63 per cent lower。
Experts:
It's normal for air tickets and hotel prices to fall
Red star journalists from multiple travel platforms found that after the spring season, many hot cities were flying to hot destinations such as sanya. Mr. Liu, an operator of a residential hotel in sanya, told red star journalists on the 25th day that, although spring holidays were over, the number of tourists who were scheduled for the holiday had not “deeply declined” but had shown a slow downward trend, “some tourists were retirees and were not affected by the holiday, while others were travelling on days off or annual leave, at a time when hotel prices were relatively cheap”
In addition, red star journalists noted that after spring holidays, ticket prices in many cinemas have also fallen considerably, and many popular films have been offered at a working day that is almost equivalent to spring holidays. “i wanted to go to the movies on the last day of spring holidays, and i found the tickets expensive, so i moved to the afternoon of 25, because i was on duty for one day during spring holidays, so i also had a holiday today.” ms. Sun, who works in dalian。
Wang ki-yun, senior research fellow, changjiang school of economics and research, china people's university, and director of the leisure economic research centre, stated that after long holidays such as spring festival, the return of air tickets, hotel prices and so forth was the normal market pattern, since for the vast majority of working people, leave was taken on statutory holidays. “... This period of time is more affordable for retirees, or for persons with relatively generous leave, and, as operators of the tourism industry, it is possible to introduce tourism products that are more suitable for this segment of the population.”
Red star reporter, fook, intern, chen chul-ya
