"May 1" online celebrity City Hotel is hard to find a room, and the price of this place has skyrocketed by 112%!
Zhongxin Jingwei Client May 1 ST (Zhang Yanzheng Intern Liu Yi) "Recently, I have always brushed Changsha food videos on Tik Tok, just ‘ May Day ’ During the small holiday, I plan to take my family to orange island to have a look, and try authentic Hunan cuisine by the way. As a result, I opened the booking platform and found that even the cheap hotel chain has risen from the original early 100 s to the price of six or seven hundred yuan, and the middle and high-end hotels have even started at 1,000 yuan, which is really unaffordable. " Ms. Li from Liaocheng City, Shandong Province told the client of Zhongxin Jingwei.
During the May Day holiday, many people chose to "punch in" in popular tourist cities. According to the data of Qunar. com, the number of domestic hotel reservations during the May 1 holiday in 2021 has exceeded 40% in the same period in 2019, a surge of 8.1 times compared with the same period in 2020. Hotel prices have been rising with the booking volume, with an average price of 458 yuan per night, which is higher than that of 85 yuan in the same period of 2019. The price has increased by 22.79%, and the price of some popular online celebrity city hotels has even increased by 112%. Are you still going to look for poetry and distance?
Online celebrity City Hotel "City Price Increase"
Recently, as a consumer, Zhongxin Jingwei client learned that the prices of hotels and homestays in some popular online celebrity cities, such as Changsha, Xi ‘an, Hangzhou and Chengdu, have skyrocketed, and it is hard to find a unique room.
The staff of Days Hotel Changsha Jiasheng said that the prices of almost all hotels have increased during the May 1 ST period, while in Changsha, hotels will adjust their prices every May 1 ST, 11 th and Spring Festival. “‘ May Day ’ Most of the rooms have been booked during the period, leaving only a few rooms. " The staff member said. The staff of Changsha Pinpin Hotel also said that most of the hotel rooms have been booked in March, and the price of Pinzhi twin room, which usually costs 619 yuan/night, is now 998 yuan/night.
The Zhongxin Jingwei client looked at the third-party booking platform and found that during the "May 1" period, many hotels and homestays in Changsha were full or only two or three rooms were left. Among them, Changsha Exotic Impression W Hotel has only one room with a 180-degree deluxe river view big bed room. Among the hotel’s characteristic rooms, the Xiangjiang River modern river view twin room with a price of 1320 yuan/night and the 270-degree full river view executive suite-the supreme package with a price of 1329 yuan/night have all been booked.
Room reservation of a hotel in Changsha and Xi ‘an Source: Ctrip
According to the "May Day" popular destinations published by Qunar.com, Changsha is the most "online celebrity" city in 2021 according to the current hotel reservations during the "May Day" holiday. Up to now, the hotel reservation in Changsha ranks second in China, with an average price of 385 yuan per night. The number of reservations increased by 1.5 times compared with the same period in 2019, and the growth rate led the new first-tier cities.
The report also shows that the prices of hotels in Changsha, a popular city in online celebrity, rose by 34%, Xi ‘an by 112%, Chengdu by 23%, Hangzhou by 20% and Zhuhai by 32%.
The staff of Xi ‘an Yunhe Night Park Hotel said that the price of the hotel room was relatively high during the May Day period, and the price of the elegant big bed room at night park was around 400-500 yuan at ordinary times, and now the price is 887 yuan/night. The Sino-Singapore Jingwei client inquired about the third-party booking platform and found that the hotel’s executive luxury parent-child room with a price of 3,212 yuan/night and the cloud and luxury twin room with a price of 2,908 yuan/night have all been booked. The staff of Hangzhou Weiyuan Hotel said that the only courtyard projection big bed room in the hotel is now priced at 1387 yuan/night, and the pre-holiday price of this room is around 700 yuan.
Netizen: The price is "outrageous"
"Some time ago, I unpacked the ticket blind box and got a ticket to Shanghai. I originally wanted to take advantage of ‘ May Day ’ Go to Disney on vacation, once ‘ Princess at large ’ However, the price of the hotel is really a bit discouraged. It is too close to live and it is a waste of time. " Ms. Zhang from Bayannaoer City, Inner Mongolia, told the client of Zhongxin Jingwei that she didn’t intend to travel too far, but just in time for the blind box activity of air tickets to be drawn to Shanghai, she temporarily decided on the travel itinerary. I didn’t expect hotels around Disney to be expensive and difficult to book. "It’s also my fault that I didn’t make plans early, so I have no choice but to consider shortening my itinerary and playing less for a few days."
Ms. Wu of Chongqing said to the client of Zhongxin Jingwei: "Express hotels are going to look like I can’t afford to live. It was originally a cheap and convenient plan to stay in the seven-day chain next to the scenic spot. When I searched the price, the big bed room would cost nearly 500 yuan a night."
On the social media platform, many netizens said that the price of hotels during this year’s "May 1" holiday rose significantly, and the price was "outrageous".
The south wind has not yet started-:Take Xiamen, where I live, for example, there are more than 200 hotels, and it will take 2,000 to get to May Day. It is understandable for hotels to raise prices appropriately during holidays. After all, business is not good at ordinary times, and holidays can make a wave, but this increase is too outrageous. Most of the money spent on accommodation when going out for a visit.
@ Shh, don’t say anything: it’s outrageous for more than one hundred to rise to seven or eight hundred, and it’s outrageous for small hotels to rise to two or three hundred.
@ Xiang kaixin: I have been planning the May Day trip for a long time, but it’s outrageous to be turned away by the hotel price of 3 times the scenic spot …
@ Learn good Xinyi sauce: During the "May Day" period, the price of this hotel is outrageous, and the usual room type of 180 is "May Day" 899.
According to Ctrip’s report data, during the May Day holiday in 2021, the order volume of Ctrip platform hotels increased by 43% compared with the same period in 2019. Many high-star hotels have been hard to find a room, and the price of hotel orders has risen, surpassing the average price in 2019. Judging from the hotel booking trend of the platform, during the "May 1" period, orders for 4 and 5 diamond high-star hotels accounted for over 50%, and more tourists were willing to buy high-quality travel services in high-star hotels.
Lan Xiang, dean of the Qunar Big Data Research Institute, believes that as early as this year’s Spring Festival, the "May 1" hotel reservations have increased significantly because a large number of suppressed travel needs have not been released. Lan Xiang said, "Although many tourists visited relatives and traveled during the just-concluded Qingming holiday, due to the length of the holiday, most of them will still choose ‘ May Day ’ Travel on holiday. "
Expert: it is not appropriate to interfere excessively with the price increase.
Zhang Yuhao, a lawyer of Beijing Weiheng Law Firm, said in an interview with Zhongxin Jingwei client that as the festival approaches, some homestay hotels balance the profit ratio of the whole year by appropriately raising prices, and such business practices may not constitute an illegal act of "driving up prices". "If the relevant operators join hands with neighboring operators in order to achieve violent profits within a certain period of time, and the price is greatly raised beyond a reasonable range; Or fabricate or disseminate false or related information, deliberately causing the price in this area to increase significantly beyond the reasonable range. If the above two situations occur, it may constitute ‘ Drive up prices ’ Illegal behavior. "
Zhou Mingxi, founder of Jingjian think tank, believes that the price increase of hotels or homestays is a market behavior that reflects the relationship between supply and demand. "In the period of oversupply, such as when the epidemic is serious, and in the traditional off-season of tourist cities, many five-star hotels sell for only three or four hundred yuan per night, which will definitely lose money from the perspective of operating costs. And the same room, in the peak season and holidays, the price of the room can reach several thousand yuan per night, the difference is multiplied. In the off-season, no one guarantees the income of the operators, and it is not appropriate to interfere excessively with the price increase in the peak season. "
"It should be noted that the market supervision department should focus on monitoring whether the hotel price is transparent, whether the room is hygienic and safe, whether it is suspected of exaggerating false propaganda, etc., to avoid the situation that the quality is not proportional to the price." Zhou Mingxi said.