No more stars makes travel convenient

• Published date: 29 June 2022
• Publication title: Shanghai Daily

Online searches for tourism products such as flights and hotels surged as much as 300 percent after the announcement that the stars marking high-risk regions on the national travel history tracking code are being removed.

Shanghai-based online travel operator Trip.com said yesterday searches on its platform for tour packages to many popular destinations jumped more than 300 percent soon after the announcement, underlining strong demand for travel.

summer tourism boom has already been seen as orders of inter-provincial tours for July 1-August 31 that Trip.com received between June 1 and Tuesday surged nearly 200 percent compared with the same period last month.

Bookings for luxury hotels jumped more than 50 percent for the same period, spurred by the resumption of dine-in services in Shanghai eateries.

nother major online travel operator, Tongcheng-eLong, said it saw a 180 percent rise in searches for flights within 30 minutes of the...