Four Booking Peaks and Hotel Operating Rhythm for the Holidays
A China Tourism News article analyzes four booking peaks for the Mid-Autumn and National Day holidays: Mid-Autumn, extended-leave shoulder, National Day main period and late-holiday shoulder. Citing platform data, it says hotel bookings in popular cities rose over 35% year on year, county-level hotel interest grew 32%, long-haul travel bookings rose over 25%, and high-quality hotel bookings increased nearly 10 percentage points. It advises hotels to manage time, space and experience accounts, and prepare pricing curves, products, staffing and public-opinion plans.