With still 20 days to go before the first May Day holiday after China optimized its COVID-19 response, Hunan's tourism market has been thriving.

Data from Trip.com Group showed that the number of orders for trips to Hunan during the 2023 May Day holiday increased over 9 times year on year. The top five tourist source cities were Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Wuhan, and Shenzhen. The number of orders received by Changsha during the May Day holiday was among top ten nationwide, 30% higher than the levels seen in 2019. The demand for rooms at internet-famous homestays such as Zhangjiajie, Liuyang, and Changsha branches of No.5 Valley Lodge reached 90%. Travel agencies' outbound tourism business has recovered rapidly.

Hunan has become a hot tourist destination during the upcoming May Day holiday. Meanwhile, Hunan people yearn for outbound travel. The Changsha Huanghua International Airport has resumed flights from Changsha to Kenya's Nairobi, Thailand's Bangkok, South Korea's Seoul, Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur, Vietnam's Nha Trang, Britain's London, and Cambodia's Phnom Penh. Data from Trip.com Group showed that the top five outbound destinations of Hunan tourists were Thailand, China's Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, and China's Macao.

This article is from Hunan Provincial Government. www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Xiao Juan

Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn