节假日的旅游业越来越红火

喜欢在节假日里出去放松身心的人们，在春节快要到来时又开始蠢蠢欲动了。人们更喜欢高质量的个人的体验，而这也让商家抓住新的机遇。假日的旅游业越来越火。

For those who want to have a perfect travel experience during the Spring Festival in 2011, it's time to start planning your trip. For example, you might want to have a celebration at home during the first three days of the holiday, then go on a Pacific Ocean island tour to escape the cold.

Zhang Qingzhu, Marketing Manager at Comfort Travel, says this year the company's high and medium-level priced travel packages to island destinations are attracting many customers.

"For example, our company has a chartered flight to Guam in the Pacific Ocean during the Spring Festival. The flight duration is only five hours. We are trying to provide comfortable, easy and slow-paced leisure tours for tourists without tight schedules. They can also choose different brief activities like cruising and scuba diving when they get there."

Another island tour destination many travel companies are now promoting to high-end travelers is French Polynesia. The cost is more than 30-thousand yuan per person for eight days during the holiday. The islands are known for their black pearls and deep blue ocean.

Yao Yao, Manager at Comfort Travel, says his company is finding that more clients are now paying special attention to individualized services during the trip.

"These kinds of trip are also known as personally tailored tours. Customers can book special flight routes, private cruise tours and sea fishing tours. We can also help them schedule their special requests such as riding a bike in the woods, watching an exhibition, and going for special medical treatments. This kind of specialized personal travel has become a trend, and more domestic travel agencies like ours are promoting our service quality in this area."

Domestically, the tropical island Hainan is offering travelers the best sunshine to dodge the cold weather. At the same time, people are also flocking to go skiing in Northeastern Heilongjiang Province.

Manager Zhang Qingzhu from Comfort Travel, says this year's domestic tourist market has seen a marked contrast compared to last year's.

"There are two hot destinations-one is up north, the other is down south. Many people from the North want sun bathe so they choose to fly to Hainan, but many southern people choose to celebrate the New Year in the snowy northeastern area. Now 80 percent of the hotel rooms have been booked for the three-day New Year holiday."

Booking luxury cruise trips is also proving to be quite popular during the seven-day Spring Festival Holiday.

Destinations include four countries along the Mediterranean coast, and five countries on a route that passes through Dubai. Prices range from 19,500 to 22,500 yuan per person.

Some agencies say during this Christmas, five-day cruise trips from Hong Kong to Sanya are still available at a price of 4,200 yuan.

For CRI, I'm Liu Min.