China: coronavirus actual impact on outbound air travel bookings, by region 2020

Flight bookings during the Chinese New Year holiday season from China were severely affected by the coronavirus COVID-19 crisis and the following travel restrictions. As of January 19, outbound travel bookings from China (excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan) to worldwide regions increased by 7.3 percent from the same equivalent period in last year. One week later, this figure declined by 13.8 percent after the Chinese government imposed a ban on outbound tour groups. The bookings to the Americas, with a market share of seven percent, dropped by 22.5 percent during the same period.

Actual change of outbound flight bookings affected by the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak from China in worldwide regions from January 19 to February 9, 2020

Characteristic	Chinese to worldwide regions	Chinese to worldwide regions, except Hong Kong and Taiwan	The Americas	Europe	Africa and Middle East	Asia Pacific
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Release date

February 2020

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Region

Worldwide, China

Survey time period

January 19 to February 9, 2020

Supplementary notes

The year-on-year change compares the same equivalent period according to the Chinese New Year. The Chinese New Year and accompanying public holidays in China are from January 24 to 30 in 2020, while that in 2019 were between February 4 and 10.

Bookings between January 20 and February 9, 2020 were compared with the period from January 31 to February 20, 2019.

This statistic has been updated according to the same source.

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