I feel sad when the spring festival
vacation is over.
春节假期结束我感到难过。
She go to Europe on
vacation.
她到欧洲去度假。
After half year's busy work,I'm going to take a long
vacation next week.
忙了半年的工作，我打算下周开始休个长假。
Vacation package provider to launch some 8 new resorts in domestic marketClub Med, a global vacation package provider, is planning to make China its largest market in terms of tourist visits in the coming years, a top executive said, as the company bets on the country's tourism market scale, growth potential and innovation capabilities.
一位高管表示，度假套餐提供商将在国内市场推出约8个新度假村。全球度假套餐提供商地中海俱乐部计划在未来几年将中国打造成其最大的旅游市场，因为该公司押注于中国的旅游市场规模、增长潜力和创新能力。
For example, its first urban vacation resort worldwide was opened in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Oct 18.
例如，10月18日，其全球首个城市度假胜地在江苏省南京市开业。
About two years ago, Zhang took a part-time job for more than one month during his summer vacation on Foxconn's Zhengzhou assembly line.
大约两年前，张暑假期间在富士康郑州装配线上做了一个多月的兼职。
The world's leading "Premium All-inclusive" vacation brand, Club Med, and Antoine Corbineau, a well-known French artist who has worked with Hermes, have jointly created an All-inclusive Travel Bag series.
全球领先的“高级全包”度假品牌Club Med与曾与爱马仕合作的法国知名艺术家Antoine Corbineau共同打造了全包旅行包系列。
The bags represent an artistic display of the brand's unique "Premium All-inclusive" vacation concept, according to the hospitality group.
据该酒店集团介绍，这些包包代表了该品牌独特的“高级全包”度假理念的艺术展示。
"As a world-leading brand with 72 years of experience in resort operation, Club Med's biggest advantage is its world-first "Premium All-inclusive" vacation concept and international Gentil Organisateur culture, servicing guests around the world.
“作为一个拥有72年度假村运营经验的世界领先品牌，地中海俱乐部最大的优势是其全球首个“高级全包”度假理念和国际Gentil Organisateur文化，为世界各地的客人提供服务。
The China branch of US-based lodging and short-term vacation rental provider Airbnb said on Tuesday it will suspend domestic operations on the Chinese mainland starting July 30 and shift its focus to outbound travel business.
总部位于美国的住宿和短期度假租赁提供商爱彼迎（Airbnb）中国分公司周二表示，将从7月30日起暂停中国大陆的国内业务，并将重点转向出境游业务。
Chinese tech company Oppo unveiled its latest 5G smartphone to target comic lovers, as part of its broader push to target the peak sales season of the July-August summer vacation.
The timing also coincides with the peak sales season in the July-August summer vacation when many students may want to upgrade their phones.
Accommodation hosts on the China branch of US-based Airbnb, a vacation rental website-cum-app, bring considerable economic benefits and employment to their local community, the company's new survey of both hosts and guests found.
The sector is expected to see more expansion, as winter vacation may trigger fresh competition for student enrollment among leading firms.
The sector is expected to see more expansion, as the winter vacation may trigger fresh competition for student enrollment among the leading firms.
The sector is expected to see more traction as the ensuing winter vacation may trigger fresh competition for student enrollments among the leading firms.
"The CEO added: "We are optimistic about the growth prospects and market restructuring opportunities of the global leisure and vacation industry after COVID-19. "
The eight-day holiday, which combines the National Day celebration and the Mid-Autumn Festival, is the first long vacation much aspired by Chinese consumers since the epidemic broke out early this year.
Su noted that the Beijing-based startup has gained sound momentum during the summer vacation this year.
Qian Jiannong, chairman of the board and CEO of Foliday, said the new platform will make the best use of the existing resources, including vacation villages, hotels, travel agencies and immersive education experience, which have been established by the company.
Peng said Airbnb is fully aware of the impact of the public health emergency on the short-term vacation accommodation industry－especially the challenges placed on hosts－so they expect to help them positively cope with the epidemic and rebuild their confidence through launching a series of courses.
"The Chinese business witnessed steady and rapid growth, and in terms of average monthly active users, we were the leader during the Jan-Oct period among all online vacation rental services platforms.
According to Peng, China's robust vacation rental market will help boost the local employment rate and drive economic growth.
Jiang Xiwei, an analyst with market consultancy Analysys, said there is huge room for growth of the vacation rental market as travelers are willing to try something different, like homestays during a trip as online services are offering several diverse experiences.
"Through this collaboration, Alipay users can now benefit from the convenience, simplicity, and security of our integrated system and merchant partners while enjoying their vacation in Cambodia.
Ninetygo, the neo travel lifestyle brand owned by Anhui Korrun Co Ltd, the first Shenzhen Stock Exchange-listed domestic suitcase manufacturer in China, plans to further diversify its product lines, to meet demand from the rising number of Chinese business and vacation travelers.
The company wishes these items can meet various needs during a vacation, to enhance the user experience, not just create fashionable looks.
Tujia, a Chinese online platform for vacation rentals, will continue efforts to bring its short-term lodging services under the purview of local regulations, improve the quality of its listings, and enhance its customers' experience, in a bid to meet diversified demand in the booming sector.
"However, there is no law to regulate vacation rental services at present, which is the biggest challenge we face," Yang said, adding that the Chinese government has a positive attitude toward the sharing economy.
Liu Junhai, a business law professor at the Renmin University of China, said short-term vacation rental websites can help promote optimal utilization of existing resources like rental housing.
"I worked really hard and was all ready for a four-week vacation in Europe.
Vacation rental markets such as Sanya, Qingdao and Beihai continue strong growth and reached four times year-on-year growth in the first quarter of this year.
"The majority of travel and vacation products are still booked offline," said Zhang Li, general manager of Ctrip's vacation channel division.
"Ctrip launched its offline development strategy in 2017, and so far our offline business is well-received just as our online services," said Peng Liang, analyst at Ctrip's vacation business unit.
Vacation rental markets such as Sanya, Qingdao and Beihai continue strong growth and reached four times year-on-year growth in Q1, 2019.
"I went to New York for vacation twice last year, and was so excited to see that people on the street are wearing our jackets," he said.
More than 95 percent of the 1,004 vacation villas have been sold at the Sanya resort, which generated 7 billion yuan of income, he said.
Like when Chinese parents are on vacation, they don’t leave their children alone like the Americans.
Its supplementary traveling services cater for various accommodation demands, ranging from family, business and vacation tours to team building outings.
For those on family vacation, Le Méridien Hangzhou, Binjiang features the Le Méridien family program to meet the needs of guests of all ages.
Airbnb Inc, a US-based vacation rental website, appointed Tao Peng, who built companies like Breadtrip and CityHunter and co-founded CityHome, as president of Airbnb China starting September.
Study tours have proven to be a hot ticket among Chinese students and parents with the coming of summer vacation this year, according to the country's largest on-demand service provider Meituan.
The company targets medium-high end consumers with Tujia, Ctrip rental vacation unit and Qunar, while it attracts younger tourists with Mayi.
Tujia has also issued a rental vacation grading standard for its services, based on order tracking and repeat orders of more than 100 million Tujia users in the past two years.
UnionPay, the national bank card payment processor, saw its overseas mobile transaction volume surge during the weeklong 2018 Spring Festival vacation, when millions of Chinese people celebrated the traditional festival abroad.
The transaction volume in countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative increased significantly during the vacation, doubling in countries such as Turkey, Sri Lanka and Morocco, and increasing nearly 40 percent in some countries, including Russia and the United Arab Emirates.
[Photo by Philippe Lopez/For China Daily]Ge Hong quits for greener pastures, to be replaced by US co-founderThe head of Airbnb Inc's China business has left his job abruptly for another opportunity after just four months in the role, with the vacation rental site announcing on Tuesday that its co-founder will take the job.
Tujia is China's largest vacation rental site, now handling more than 650,000 listings globally.
com, China's largest vacation rental platform, seeks to boost its Japan listings tenfold in two years as it vies with Airbnb Inc to capitalize on the nation's tourism boom.
She made two trips to the bookshop on successive days during her summer vacation, despite the 50-minute bus journey from her home.
Talking about his recently developed business interest in co-working spaces, Horsfield noted that resorts, as well-designed and popular as they are, could accommodate guests once or twice every year during their vacation.
Released at the golden time of the summer vacation, Wolf Warrior II tells the story of a former Chinese special serviceman's adventurous journey to rescue compatriots and local friends in a war-torn region of Africa occupied by insurgents and mercenaries.
Club Med banners blow in the wind beside the swimming pool at the Club Med Punta Cana vacation resort in the Dominican Republic, March 3, 2016.
The tourism sector has also seen remarkable growth during the extended vacation period.
This extended vacation period allows Chinese people to enjoy an eight-day break for travel and leisure.
Zhao noted that the service sector sustained the recovery momentum in August, boosted by consumption during the summer vacation.
Services consumption logged a stellar 20.3 percent expansion in the January-July period, with robust summer vacation tourism.
"Since the kids are on summer vacation, we decided to take a trip," said Xu Bei, a tourist from central China's Hubei Province, who has been to the tropical island several times.
The influx of tourists during summer vacation has enhanced the duty-free shopping enthusiasm of local salespeople.
"Since summer vacation began, there has been a notable increase in foot traffic from Monday to Friday, and on weekends the number of visitors jumps even further," said Yao Xinyu, a salesman for a Swiss watch and jewelry brand in the duty-free city.
For the Haikou International Duty-Free Shopping Complex, which opened last October, this is a first taste of the summer vacation experience.
A similar development model is also being conducted in Dongzhongdu village of Sishui county where partners have utilized 45 idle courtyards and over 16 hectares of idle land around the village to develop a range of facilities, turning the village into a rural slow-living leisure destination that integrates leisure, vacation, field study, shopping and training.
The upcoming Dragon Boat Festival and summer vacation, coupled with better policies and activities to spur consumption, will ensure that domestic consumption shows stable growth in the second quarter, Shu said.
Services and commodities consumption, as well as domestic travel all registered double-digit growth during the first minor vacation since China adjusted its response to COVID-19 pandemic, indicating overall economic revival of the country.
Tropical vacation destination plays key role in driving consumption upgrade in nationMajor Chinese duty-free retailers said offshore duty-free shopping in Hainan province, a top vacation destination, has become key to boosting consumption upgrade in China, with the duty-free sector playing a significant role in supporting the backflow of international spending into Hainan.
After the implementation of offshore duty-free shopping policies in Hainan, a top vacation resort and shopping paradise, detailed rules have been adjusted eight times, making duty-free shopping a golden ticket for Hainan.
This year, however, my husband and I chose to spend the long-awaited vacation in Gubei Water Town, a well-known site for cultural tourism in Beijing's Miyun district.
Hot spring baths, swims in the "infinity pool", temple fairs, walks through the local streets donned in Han-style clothes, experiences like operating a traditional wooden movable-type printing press, and paper-art lessons … things like that made my three-day vacation memorable.
For the first time, I found my family vacation can be relaxing as well.
The vacation cost me around 3,000 yuan ($435), including accommodation, food and cultural experiences.
Yang Xiaojun flew to Beihai with family and friends for a six-day vacation.
Most importantly, it is so great to finally get back to a vacation scenario where I can be close to the mountains and water," Zhang said.
This joint force also plays a crucial role in the way we travel: from the vacation destination we choose, all the way to what we do once we're there and even in the time after we've come back," she said.
"There are more and more people taking the China-Laos Railway to travel around Yunnan, especially during summer vacation," said Zhao Yingjing, conductor of the train, who can speak three foreign languages - Lao, Thai and English - to serve different international passengers.
It will seize the business opportunities in Hainan, a top vacation resort and a shopping paradise, where it has attracted a large number of consumers and the company is bullish on the prospects of offshore duty-free shopping in the province.
"We hope that people travel more often to the suburbs during summer vacation to experience local history, culture and folk customs using coupons," Liu said.
Along with similar changes in travelers' requirements, more Shanghai people will take trips to cities outside Shanghai, especially as summer vacation is arriving," said Zhao.
"As the condition of COVID-19 prevention and containment is improving, travel demand among Shanghai people will quickly pick up during the upcoming summer vacation," Xie said.
Zhang Xinya, formerly a senior student at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, has been looking for work since the summer vacation last year, 12 months before she graduated.
"With the upgrading of tourism demand, traditional sightseeing-based tourism is gradually shifting toward a new mode involving tourism, wellness, leisure, vacation and consumer experience.
Although many short-term vacation rental platforms have adjusted their operating strategies and shifted their focus to rural homestays, the nation's shared accommodation segment is still facing huge pressure and uncertainty as pent-up demand for travel has not been fully unleashed and the new business model is not mature, the SIC said.
We would also see some pent-up demand because it has been difficult to travel and it has been difficult to have vacation for some period (of time).
NANNING－The past summer vacation has been especially busy for Jariya Unthong, a Thai-language teacher based in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, who has been routinely invited by a local company to livestream and peddle products to Thai consumers via e-commerce platform Lazada.
Seaside city Sanya in Hainan province also saw a large number of active late-night consumers, and most food orders at night came from hotels and vacation resorts.
Experts attributed the July rise in services mainly to two factors: the summer vacation that boosted consumption of services; and the release of pent-up demand after the containment of local COVID-19 cases in Guangdong province.
Changsha, Hunan province, gained particular traction during the vacation, as many young users shared notes－essentially video or photo posts uploaded by users－on the site, providing travel recommendations through vivid storytelling.
In the first two days of the five-day International Workers' Day vacation, which ended Wednesday, transactions via China UnionPay, the nation's largest card processor, jumped 6.9 percent from that of 2019 to reach 754.3 billion yuan.
Government-backed companies and work units were advised to allow their employees to take staggered vacations around the festival, so as to prevent the simultaneous mass movement of hundreds of millions of people, who traditionally travel at the beginning of the holiday, either to see family at home or take a vacation, according to the report.
Other measures to take in order to strengthen consumption and enhance people's livelihood include developing contactless transaction services, promoting the integrated development of online and offline consumption, boosting urban and rural consumer markets, implementing a paid vacation system, boosting holiday consumption, improving the consumption environment and strengthening consumer rights protection.
- China's eight-day Golden Week holiday has reflected the country's impressive recovery and its economic bounce back from the COVID-19 epidemic, with more than half a billion people on the move for a long-awaited vacation and factories stepping up production to complete new orders.
With less than 500 days to go, construction of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics venues has entered the home stretch, with over 10,000 workers choosing to remain employed during the vacation.
The eight-day hybrid vacation, combining the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays, saw expenditures at tourist sites and hospitality facilities jump 83 percent and 71 percent, respectively, from Oct 1 to 3 compared with the May Day holiday, according to WeChat Pay, the mobile wallet of messaging app WeChat, which has over 1 billion users.
"With Spring Festival and the winter vacation for schools around the corner, there is high demand for erhu, which will be used in various performances, and training institutions are also placing orders," the villager from Yuequan, located in Tancheng county in Linyi, Shandong province, said.
Last year, determined to include Max in a family vacation during the National Day holiday in October, the 28-year-old Shanghai consultant planned an unforgettable trip for herself and her faithful companion to neighboring Zhejiang province.
He is family, and I simply don't want to leave him behind again," Zhao said, adding that she researched various accommodation options, discovering that many hotels and vacation rentals now cater to pet owners.
Zhao is among the rapidly growing ranks of pet owners who now take their furry family members on vacation with them — a trend made possible by the rise in animal-friendly accommodations along with transport operators and eateries that meet these needs.
The pet-friendly homestay market in Shanghai, as seen from statistics released by vacation rentals platform Tujia, had a notable upsurge in 2022, with the number of such accommodations approaching 30,000, up 127 percent from pre-pandemic 2019.
The holiday will mark the first winter vacation and the first Spring Festival since China resumed group outbound tourism after the pandemic subsided.
Outbound tourism will surpass the levels seen during the summer vacation and the National Day holiday in 2023, industry experts forecast.
If it's more than nine days, we will help plan a longer route for travelers," said Yang Guanghui, director of vacation business at Qunar.
"An increasing number of Chinese consumers are no longer satisfied with traditional hot spring experiences, and they are seeking more diversified, personalized and high-quality hot spring vacation products," said Qi Chunguang, vice-president of Tuniu.
"I think that after many years of growth and development, people in China will love this special kind of vacation.
Most of these ski resorts are located in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Zhangjiakou of Hebei province and Changbai Mountain area in Jilin province, according to vacation rentals platform Tujia.