During the Spring Festival holiday in 2026, self-driving travel continued to be hot. Ctrip data shows that up to now, during the Spring Festival, the number of car rental orders nationwide has increased by nearly 20% year-on-year, and the average car use time has been extended to about 5 days, an increase of 30% over last year.Popular tourist cities and first-tier hub cities such as Kunming, Haikou, Sanya, Guangzhou and Chengdu have become the preferred destinations for car rental travel, and the proportion of car return orders in different places has increased significantly. "Self-driving cross-city travel" is gradually becoming the new normal of holiday travel.This growth not only stems from the centralized release of holiday travel demand, but also reflects the expectation of consumers to upgrade their self-driving travel experience-people are no longer satisfied with "having a car to drive", but pursue the certainty, flexibility and security of the whole process from booking, picking up the car, using it to returning it. The car rental industry has also gradually shifted from the stage of price competition to a new stage of high-quality development with service standardization, transparent experience and systematic guarantee as the core.
