The ninth edition of the new crown prevention and control plan is released today, and the domestic tourism industry will recover and welcome the favorable policiesFly into the homes of ordinary people
Xinmin Evening News (Reporter Yang Yuhong) After the circuit breaker mechanism for inter-provincial tours has been pinpointed to “counties”, the domestic tourism industry has ushered in another major benefit. On June 28, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council released the ninth edition of the New Coronary Pneumonia Prevention and Control Plan (hereinfollowing referred to as the “Plan”), which has built a closed policy loop to accelerate the recovery of the domestic tourism market.
After the announcement of the plan, A-share travel stocks rose in a straight line, with Junting Hotel, Zhongxin Tourism, Lijiang Shares, Huatian Hotel, and ST Caesars reaching the daily limit; among H-share travel stocks, Huazhu Group-S rose by 25% at one point. Ctrip Group-S once rose by more than 25%, and Fosun Tourism Culture once rose by more than 15%.
Qunar platform data shows that one hour following the release of the plan, the instant search volume of international air tickets doubled, reaching the highest peak of international air ticket searches on the platform in the past two years. One-hour international air ticket bookings increased by nearly 60% from the same period last week. “The isolation and control time of inbound personnel has been shortened from the past 21 days to 10 days, which means that the reception guarantee capacity of the quarantine hotel for returning to China has been enhanced, and it also lays the foundation for the increase in the number of returning flights in the future.” Lan Lan, Dean of the Qunar Big Data Research Institute Xiang believes that the increase in the number of return flights is conducive to the flow of people at home and abroad, and also opens a channel for the reduction of return flight fares.
The plan further clarifies the definition of low-risk areas, that is, other areas in the counties (cities, districts, and flags) where medium- and high-risk areas are located. High-risk areas have no new infections for 7 consecutive days, which can be reduced to medium-risk areas. For 3 consecutive days, no new infections were reported in medium-risk areas, which were reduced to low-risk areas. Zhang Zhining, deputy director of the Strategic Research Center of Ctrip Research Institute, said that shortening the downgrade cycle and clarifying the scope and definition of low-risk areas will have a positive impact on domestic super-large and large and medium-sized cities. Super-large cities often have the dual attributes of a popular destination and a core source of tourists. The adjustment of policies is conducive to further activating the vitality of residents’ consumption and accelerating the recovery of the tourism market.
“From the ‘circuit breaker’ of inter-provincial tourism to the county, and then to the update of the epidemic prevention and control plan. In less than a month, the two policies have been implemented one following another, creating a closed policy loop to accelerate the recovery of the domestic tourism market.” Zhang Zhining It is introduced that in the past weekend, the domestic tourism market ushered in an accelerated recovery from multiple dimensions. Ctrip data shows that local tourism, surrounding tourism, rural tourism, and inter-provincial tourism all saw double-digit growth compared with the same period last month. Among them, inter-provincial tourism increased by more than 70% compared with the same period last month. In addition, hotel bookings in South China and West China have exceeded the level of the same period in 2019 in the most recent month. As the epidemic situation eased, Ctrip’s domestic hotel bookings also exceeded 2019 levels in the past two weeks.
