Travel bookings in China for the New Year holiday have reached a peak, said the country's largest online travel agency in a report on Thursday, the state media Xinhua reports. According to Trip.com Group based in Shanghai, the popularity of domestic long distance destinations increased by 320 percent month-on-month. Among the top 10 New Year's Eve flights booked via Trip.com, flights from Beijing to Sanya, Harbin to Beijing and Beijing to Guangzhou rank top three. The railway travel peak was expected to start from December 30, with Guangzhou, Changsha, Hangzhou, Harbin, Chongqing and Beijing experiencing a surge of heat. The average cost of private travel groups was 40 percent less than the same period last year.

Source: The Standard December 18, 2020 03:00 UTC