{"id":76474,"date":"2025-10-12T21:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/76474\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T21:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:24:18","slug":"surge-in-national-day-holiday-bookings-from-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/76474\/","title":{"rendered":"Surge in National Day Holiday bookings from college students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China based online travel platform <a href=\"https:\/\/us.fliggytravel.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fliggy<\/a> unveiled new booking insights of the recent National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays.<\/p>\n<p>It found sustained demand for far-flung destinations as well as growing enthusiasm for travel among college students.<\/p>\n<p>Data reveals 14.6% year-on-year growth in the average order value for holiday activities, with Gen Z travellers leading the way.<\/p>\n<p>It saw a notable trend towards multi-destination travel, with per capita bookings for transportation services \u2013 such as flights and car rentals \u2013 rising 5%.<\/p>\n<p>Per capita bookings for hotels, packaged tours, and tickets also increased 4.6% YoY.<\/p>\n<p>Fliggy\u2019s AI travel assistant, AskMe, which launched in April, has quickly become a favourite, it says.<\/p>\n<p>During the holiday period, its average daily user count surged over fivefold from its summer peak.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, on October 3, the AI audio guide feature \u2013 which offers professional on-the-go narratives via user photos \u2013 achieved its highest usage to date.<\/p>\n<p>Fliggy\u2019s data indicates that travellers under 30 emerged as the dominant demographic this season, accounting for nearly a quarter of all bookings.<\/p>\n<p>Alibaba group owned Fliggy says college students are shifting away from more budget-focused travel.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they are increasingly setting their sights on further flung destinations that promise richer experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Fliggy\u2019s data reveals a notable 63% YoY increase in flight bookings among college students, with international journeys seeing an impressive spike of 110%.<\/p>\n<p>Top domestic destinations included Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Nanjing, Wuhan, and Xi\u2019an.<\/p>\n<p>For outbound travel, popular destinations included Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam, France, Australia, the United States, and Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Bookings across many small- and mid-sized cities in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe doubled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China based online travel platform Fliggy unveiled new booking insights of the recent National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-76474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}