Spring Festival travel rush inventory in 2025 | Ice and snow economy "hot" gives a new height. Traffic "gives force" adds warmth.
CCTV News:Spring Festival travel rush ends on February 22nd, 2025. According to the data from the comprehensive transportation Spring Festival travel rush working class in 2025, in 40 days in Spring Festival travel rush, the cross-regional personnel flow of the whole society was 9.02 billion person-times, an increase of 7.1% over the same period in 2024.
Among them, the number of railway passengers sent was 510 million, a year-on-year increase of 6.1%; The turnover of highway personnel was 8.39 billion person-times, a year-on-year increase of 7.2%; The number of passengers sent by waterway was 31.21 million, a year-on-year increase of 7.6%; The number of passengers sent by civil aviation was 90.2 million, a year-on-year increase of 7.4%.
Inventory in Spring Festival travel rush in 2025: The "ice and snow fever" traffic in the north and south helps the ice and snow tour.
This year’s Spring Festival travel rush also presents a feature: whether it is cold in the north or warm in the south, there has been an ice and snow tourism fever.
The hosting of the Asian Winter Games has heated up the "two-hour" and "three-hour" economic and tourism circles with Harbin as the center. Domestic air ticket orders with Harbin as the destination increased by over 20% year-on-year, and hotel bookings increased by nearly 60% year-on-year. The cumulative reception of inbound tourists in Harbin increased by 144.7% year-on-year.
A major feature of Spring Festival travel rush this year is that ice and snow tourism fever has appeared in many places in the north and south of China. The data shows that the hotel booking fever in Altay, Yili, Qitaihe, Heilongjiang and Xilin Gol, Inner Mongolia in the north increased by more than 40% year-on-year. The search heat of ice and snow consumption in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places in the south has more than doubled.
In order to cope with the ice and snow tourism fever, this year, Spring Festival travel rush, the railway departments around the country increased the frequency of trains running between the hot cities of ice and snow tourism. Railway and transportation departments around the country have opened up the "fast lane" of ice and snow tourism, realizing the seamless connection between railway stations, bus stations and ski resorts. In view of the surge of tourists going to Shangri-La, Yunnan for skiing, Yunnan Railway Department has started tourist trains from Xishuangbanna, Kunming, Dali and other popular tourist cities to Lijiang, and then the tourists will transfer to the EMU train from Lijiang to Shangri-La, which will go directly to Shangri-La. Xiamen, Fujian opened the first ice and snow theme train to Harbin.
Wu Zhenbin, the stationmaster of Xiamen North Station of Nanchang Bureau of China Railway, said: "We have designated a waiting area for group passengers in the waiting room and arranged special escort services to make the elderly groups travel steadily and feel warm."