While the coronavirus pandemic has frozen global travel and hit the travel industry hard, data from home-sharing startup Airbnb Inc shows the number of domestic bookings in China for the first half of April were up more than 200 per cent compared with the same period in March.
Data from AirDNA, a separate analytics firm, showed the number of bookings for the week of April 13 in 10 big Chinese cities, including Shanghai and Guangzhou, were up nearly 80 per cent from the week of March 16, which AirDNA Chief Executive Scott Shatford said was the bottom for that market.
Still that’s about half the bookings seen the week of Jan. 6. Shatford said his firm’s data includes bookings from international travelers staying in China. [ Sign up for our