Times are changing, and so are travel methods. What changes have Chinese people’s travel experienced?

Online travel service providers have ended the era when Chinese people relied on friends to book hotels and favors to buy air tickets. Now if you want to travel, you only need to check the tickets online and then book the tickets. That’s it, simple and convenient. This is a leap-forward change in ticket booking, which has also affected the development of the entire tourism industry. People are more willing to leave their homes and go to other places.

Group travel, as a full-service travel method, has long been the main travel method for Chinese people. It has a history of thirty or forty years with the reform and opening up, but it is still "prosperous". According to Ctrip’s domestic and foreign tourist statistics, more than half of tourists still choose group tours. Judging from Ctrip’s big data, it seems that more than 70% of tourists choose to follow group tour products.

Tourists can freely match hotel, flight and other combination packages according to their own preferences to save packaging costs. Over the past 15 years, independent travel has become the main tourism method and product type in my country’s tourism market. Compared with group travel, independent travel has stronger individual willingness and higher comfort. Therefore, people with financial conditions are still willing to choose independent travel, and now they no longer rely entirely on their own independent travel.

Many people now choose to travel by high-speed rail. The emergence of high-speed rail has made China a major tourist country. High-speed rail is now the most convenient way to travel. Times are changing, and the tourism industry is also developing continuously. Now it is a basic service that everyone can enjoy. The development of tourism can not only make everyone happy physically and mentally, but also promote the economic development of other places, so it is a good thing.