In recent days, hotels in Sanya have been full for many times. Why?

"Yangkang people flock to Sanya" has become a hot topic in recent days

On relevant travel platforms

Sanya has also become a popular destination

< p>December 24

A customer service staff member of a hotel in Sanya told reporters

In recent days, the hotel has been full for many times

There are local B&Bs The boss said

The rooms during the Spring Festival have been booked

After the release of the "New Ten Rules", Hainan tourism took the lead in showing signs of recovery as the epidemic prevention and control policies continued to be optimized and adjusted.

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Data from a travel platform shows that from December 7 to December 18, the number of domestic air ticket bookings to Sanya increased by nearly 10% year-on-year, compared with the same period last month (November 7 to November 18) The increase exceeded 80%.

Beijing tourists are particularly enthusiastic about Sanya. In the past week (December 12 to December 18, 2022), the number of air tickets booked from Beijing to Sanya on this platform increased by 46% year-on-year. The average air ticket price increased by 14% year-on-year. At the same time, the number of hotel bookings by Beijing tourists in Sanya increased by 30% year-on-year. During the New Year holiday, the number one domestic route was Beijing-Sanya.

< p>Faced with the new situation after "liberalization", the hotel and tourism markets have also ushered in new developments

The first wave of "Yangkang" has set off

Now living in Beijing. Ms. Chen is an account manager of an advertising and public relations company. She was among the first wave of positive patients after the "relaxation" of epidemic control in Beijing. After recuperating at home for more than a week, she was arranged by the company to go on a business trip to Sanya on December 20. At 7 o'clock in the morning on the 20th, she boarded a plane to Sanya at Daxing Airport. She said: "There were many more people at Daxing Airport on the 20th than expected. ”

The price of the direct flight from Beijing to Sanya purchased by Ms. Chen is about 1,500 yuan. Data from a travel platform shows that the average price paid for economy class air tickets on domestic routes departing from Beijing in the past three days is 698 yuan, which is higher than the previous week. The previous increase reached 20%.

Taking the Beijing-Sanya route as an example, there were still many non-stop tickets priced around 1,500 yuan on the 17th and 18th. On the 21st, the price of the remaining tickets was about 1,500 yuan. They all cost around 1,800 to 1,900 yuan, and they need to depart from Daxing Airport and can only carry a small amount of luggage.

Many people reported that the price of air tickets dropped within just one or two days from considering departure to making a decision. It has increased by two to three hundred yuan.

According to news released by Sanya Phoenix International Airport on the 19th, the number of flights operated by the airport reached 310 on December 13, and the passenger throughput of the airport exceeded 36,000 on December 15. A new high since August. According to observations by practitioners, the number of tourists has reached the level of previous shoulder seasons.

Sanya’s inbound passenger flow (Photo source: Sanya Phoenix Airport official website)

In terms of self-driving travel, data from a car rental platform shows that from December 7 to December 18, 2022, the number of car rental bookings in Hainan Province increased by 88% compared with the same period last month (November 7 to November 18), and increased by 88% year-on-year. Over 20%. In the latest week (December 12th to December 18th), the number of car rental bookings increased by more than 30% compared with last week (December 5th to December 11th) and increased by 25% year-on-year.

In terms of epidemic prevention, Ms. Chen told reporters that passengers on the plane were very careful about protection. Most of them wore N95 masks, and some even wore face shields. The flight attendants distributed bread and yogurt packed in paper bags to everyone. There are fewer passengers dining on board.

How is Sanya now?

After arriving in Sanya, Ms. Chen found that there were many people at the airport, many of whom were traveling with their families, and many people were traveling on the road. Large-capacity commercial vehicles.

However, some tourists are worried that the influx of tourists from all over the country to Sanya will cause the spread of the virus. Ms. Ding from Nanjing is worried about this. Her original trip was to fly to Sanya on December 25. Sanya, staying for 7 days, but because the child is less than 11 months old and worried about the risk of infection, the travel plan was finally postponed to next summer.

Ms. Chen also told reporters that the current distribution of Sanya pharmacies is limited. Antipyretics such as Rofen and Tylenol have been sold out. Fortunately, the company has prepared medicines for colleagues on business trips.

Ms. Liu from Shandong is engaged in hotel reservation services in Sanya. She said that most of the positive passengers are now. The virus she contracted on the road started to show symptoms a day or two after arriving at the hotel. She was also infected on the way back to Shandong from Sanya and is currently recovering from illness.

Currently, the temperature in Sanya is between 16 and 25 degrees. During the period, the weather was sunny most of the time, with occasional clouds, but the wind was relatively strong, so there were fewer tourists on the beach.

Hotel bookings have initially picked up

Some tourists have canceled their orders< /p>

Mr. Chen, who has 17 years of experience in the tourism industry in Sanya, told reporters that according to his exchanges with other Sanya tourism practitioners, Sanya’s tourism product bookings have increased since the release of the “New Ten Rules” on December 7. It started to surge. After the growth continued for a week, it fell back for about a week, and then started a new round of growth on the 21st and 22nd.

According to their speculation, this is because after the policy was relaxed, some tourists immediately placed orders to prepare for travel. However, due to the subsequent surge in the number of infections, everyone began to become cautious again due to concerns about health.

By the 21st and 22nd, the first wave of infected people gradually recovered and began to travel.

As for the Spring Festival market, Mr. Chen said that everyone generally still adopts a wait-and-see attitude. Although he believes that there is a high probability of improvement, considering that the peak of the epidemic in Sanya will lag behind that of big cities, if the Spring Festival happens to coincide with If the local epidemic peaks, it will have a great impact on tourism.

A staff member of a five-star hotel in Sanya told reporters that the current hotel occupancy rate has reached 80%, and the passenger flow mainly comes from first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. It is expected that there will be good bookings during the Spring Festival. Regarding the issue of chargebacks, the hotel stated that due to the fluctuating epidemic situation, temporary cancellations by tourists have become the norm in the industry, and the hotel will actively coordinate and deal with it.

On the morning of December 24, a staff member of a hotel chain near Yalong Bay in Sanya told reporters that there were no ordinary rooms available in the morning, and only some higher-priced high-end rooms remained. Their hotel has more than 100 rooms, and they have been fully booked in recent days.