Qingming Festival boosts travel numbers

This year's Qingming Festival (Tomb Sweeping Day) holiday, which concluded on Sunday, brought about a surge in travel numbers, despite April being a traditional off-season for travel.

The elderly continue to show a strong demand for travel, and young people took advantage of the break by taking days off work to enjoy longer vacations.

Over the holiday, flight booking volumes to popular domestic cities grew by 10 percent year-on-year, while hotel bookings in hot domestic tourist destinations saw double-digit growth, according to Qunar, a Beijing-based online travel agency.