Family-friendly trip becomes popular during Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival, or Duanwu Jie, which is marked on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, this year falls on May 30th.

The statistics released by tuniu.com and lvmama.com, 2 online travel portals, showed most people intend to spend the 3-day holiday traveling abroad and the most popular tourist destinations are Thailand, Japan and Malaysia . Meanwhile, the number of family-friendly trips is increasing due to the upcoming  Children’s Day.

Prior to summer vacation, the travel peak, May and June is an ideal time for office workers to travel, for during the tourism’s transition from low season to high one, they can avoid the crowds and save money . Accordingly, 41% of them  will opt for outbound tourism. Thanks to the Belt and Road Initiative,an increasing  number of visitors will travel to Russia and Central and Easter European countries this year, with a remarkable increase of 400%. Poland, Russia, Czech Republic, Serbia and Slovakia are among the favorite booking list.

For group travelers, family-friendly trips will account for nearly 60% because of the upcoming Children's Day. Two or three days trips to Zhuhai Chimelong or Changzhou are well-received by families due to short distance and well-equipped facilities.

Besides, theme parks such as Shanghai Disney Resort, Chimelong International Ocean Tourist Resort, Beijing Happy Valley, and China Dinosaur Park are listed among most popular spots based on the reservation rate.