The upcoming National Day holiday golden week will be a brisk week for travel, and Beijing and Hong Kong are the most popular tourist destinations, said ctrip.com, China's major online travel service company.
The company has conducted a survey on people's travelling trends for the weeklong National Day holiday. About half of the respondents traveled during the last National Day holiday, one-third plan to travel this time and one-third intend to travel, according to the survey.
Tourists plan to head for Beijing and Hong Kong have risen over 100 percent and 40 percent respectively, according to the company's reservation statistics. And about 40 percent more tourists have reserved the Hong Kong Disneyland travel package.
Air ticket prices during golden week will remain, as usual, higher at the beginning and end, and lower in the middle.
Prices of flights from Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou to hot destinations, such as Sanya, Guilin and Xiamen have increased by over 30 percent since September 28. No discounts are available for flights from Shanghai and Guangzhou to Sanya and from Beijing and Chengdu to Guilin.
Yet air ticket prices between October 1 and 3 have plummetted, down as much as 50 percent for some flights.
However, flights from Sanya, Guilin and Xiamen on October 4 and 5 have risen rapidly in price and are hard to get.
