Hot weather boosts travel fever
12/7/2004 15:51
Wendy Zhang/ Shanghai Daily news
Despite price
increases, many local travel agencies reported full bookings on their mid and
long-distance tours, the Shanghai Morning Post reported today.
Locals signing
up for tours to Lushan Mountain and Nanchang are having to wait for at least
five days before setting off, with those for popular destinations like Hainan
and Wuyi Mountain required to wait for 10 to 18 days.
The price of a five-day
tour to Lushan Mountain increased from 690 yuan (US$83) to 720 yuan, but still
attracted many tourists, said a spokesman with the Shanghai China Youth Travel
Service Tour Corporation.
The hot weather has driven up the sales of train
tours, with middle-aged and elderly people the main tourist group.
Tours to
Hainan have reached a peak. Travellers wishing to visit the island must wait
until July 20. Due to the airfare increases, average tour prices to Hainan
increased by 300 yuan from the pervious month, the highest price rise among
domestic tours.
As some local enterprises are asked to switch their
production schedules due to power shortages, many employees, who are on leave on
a shift pattern, are interested in taking short
holidays.
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