Older travelers keen on Double Ninth Festival trips

Seniors' passion for travel, unleashed in late August when concerns about COVID-19 abated in China, peaked over the weekend with the Double Ninth Festival falling on Sunday, travel agencies said.

Qunar, an online travel agency headquartered in Beijing, said in a recent report that trip reservations by senior travelers made on its platform from Oct 9 to 21 for the festival, a traditional day to show respect to the elderly, had recovered to over 80 percent of the level at the same time last year.

The latest data from Lvmama, another online travel agency, shows that tour package reservations for the elderly over the festival weekend were up 13 percent from the previous weekend.