Travelers searching for 'niche' holidays

Some "niche" or lesser-known destinations will see crowds of travelers swarming in during the coming Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays — with the holiday being predicted by tourism insiders as the most "jammed" holiday in recent years.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays are combined into an eight-day holiday, which will start on Sept 29 and end on Oct 6.

Train and flight ticket booking platforms are jam-packed because of the surging orders. Qunar, a travel portal, said that train tickets departing from Beijing to cities including Wuhan in Hubei, Xi'an in Shaanxi and Zhengzhou in Henan provinces were snapped up in 30 minutes after the China Railway Group started to release train tickets for the holiday on Friday.