The Zhitong Finance App learned that the General Office of the State Council issued a notice on the schedule of some holidays in 2025: Starting January 1, 2025, the number of holidays for all citizens will be increased by 2 days, including 1 day each for Spring Festival and Labor Day. This means that in 2025, the Spring Festival and National Day will be an 8-day long holiday, and Labor Day will be a 5-day long holiday. After the news was announced, the number of ticket searches on the Ctrip platform during the 2025 Spring Festival increased 1.7 times, and the number of ticket searches on New Year's Eve increased 2.5 times.

Judging from the current reservation situation, users in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places booked a high number of air tickets on New Year's Eve. Some users also requested 4 days off from February 5 to 8 in advance to get a 13-day long vacation. Consumers in Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Chongqing and other places have already begun to book return tickets for February 9, and are ready to take a break of 13.

Judging from Ctrip's current reservation data, the most popular domestic destinations for overall travel order bookings during the Spring Festival holiday are: Shanghai, Beijing, Harbin, Guangzhou, Sanya, Xi'an, Chengdu, and Shenzhen. Popular outbound destinations are: Tokyo, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Meanwhile, airline ticket searches for domestic winter vacation destinations such as Sanya, Kunming, and Lijiang increased by more than 60%.

Wang Yalei, an analyst at Ctrip Research Institute, said, “The holidays are an important point driving consumption in tourism, transportation, food, etc. In 2024, the number of domestic travelers and spending amounts during the May 1st and 11th holidays all reached record highs. The overall increase of 2 days of statutory holidays in 2025 can be expected. In addition, the notice emphasizes that “with the exception of some special circumstances, continuous work will generally not exceed 6 days before and after the statutory holidays,” which means that the “vacation adjustments” that plague the public will be alleviated. In particular, the 8-day National Day and Spring Festival holidays will help unleash the enthusiasm for holiday travel, make it easier for travelers to calmly choose to travel at the wrong peak, and ease the pressure of concentrated holiday travel.”