Recently, Ministry of Culture and Tourism released data, and this year's National Day holiday reached 422 million domestic travel, recovering to 60.7% of the same period in 2019. Driven by local tours, surrounding tours and short-distance tours, renting a car and driving by yourself has become the choice of many citizens.
Qichacha data shows that there are 1.396 million car rental-related enterprises in my country, of which 47,000 are currently in Henan Province and 19,000 are currently in Zhengzhou. Zhengzhou ranks ninth among the distribution of car rental-related enterprises in my country.
In the past decade, the domestic economy has developed rapidly, and the increase in per capita disposable income of laid the foundation for the improvement of residents' living standards. The tourism industry is becoming increasingly prosperous, and the car rental market has expanded accordingly.
Overall, in the first half of 2022, 29,000 new car rental-related companies were added. Since 2012, the car rental market has steadily expanded. In 2017, the number of registered car rental-related companies in my country exceeded 200,000, and the number of registered companies in the following year increased by 21.9% year-on-year to 256,000. In 2020, the number of registered car rental-related companies reached 300,000.
From the perspective of urban distribution, car rental-related companies are concentrated in first-tier cities, with Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen taking the top four. Among them, Shanghai is the city with the largest number of car rental companies in the country, with 67,000 existing companies, Zhengzhou has a total of 27,000 existing companies and 19,000 existing companies, ranking ninth in the country.
According to annual survey, in 2020, Henan Province added 9,686 new car rental-related companies, maintaining the same level in 2019, of which 3,705 new companies were added in Zhengzhou; in 2021, Henan Province added 6,472 new car rental-related companies, of which 2,301 new companies were added in Zhengzhou; in the first half of 2022, Henan added 391 new car rental-related companies, of which 156 new companies were added in Zhengzhou.
In addition, multiple car rental companies have successively released travel data for National Day in 2022, which has also verified the hot market for car rental travel.
Halo data shows that during this year's National Day, the daily peak order volume of Hello taxi users exceeded one million orders, and the daily peak order volume of the platform increased by nearly 100% compared with the same period last year. The single-day demand for ride-hailing platforms matched and matched by nearly 10 million.
YiHi Travel Research Institute National Day travel big data for 2022 shows that Yangtze River Delta , Pearl River Delta, Southeast, and Central China are the most popular, especially Zhejiang Province, Jiangsu Province, Anhui Province, Hunan Province, Heilongjiang Province, Shanghai City, etc. The orders have increased year-on-year. Overall, intra-provincial travel, intra-city travel, and surrounding travel are the mainstream.
Shenzhou Car Rental 2022 National Day car rental big data shows that the proportion of young people from generation to generation of Z, such as post-95s and post-00s, in the proportion of car rental users has increased year by year, accounting for more than 1/3, an increase of 10 percentage points year-on-year. Consumer groups represented by them prefer niche tourist attractions, immersive cultural experiences, or exploring new ways to play "new tricks of old places".
"Take a break and spend time with the elderly and children, and don't have time to come out to play." Ms. Liu, a citizen of Zhengzhou, said that her car has a relatively small space and decided to rent a spacious SUV considering its comfort and safety.
What Ms. Liu didn’t expect was that there are still many models to choose from on October 1st, and by the 2nd, most popular models will be booked. "From the car rental software, 6-seater and 7-seater models suitable for family travel are the most popular, as well as Volkswagen and Buick that young people like are also very popular. If you want to rent your favorite car model, you should start as soon as possible."
