(Yicai Global) June 14 -- The number of bookings for overseas trips from China jumped more than 11 times ahead of the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday from a year earlier, with Southeast Asia remaining the favorite holiday destination for Chinese tourists.

Bookings with online travel agents for June 22 to 24 surged more than 12-fold from a year ago, data from China's biggest Trip.Com showed. Bookings through Alibaba-backed travel platform Figgy soared 16 times, according to its data.

Sixty-five percent of outbound travelers are headed to Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and Singapore, data released by travel agency Ly.Com showed. 

But the average spent on outbound travel products fell by about 10 percent compared with that forked out over this year's Labor Day holiday, according to Fliggy. 

Fliggy’s data also showed that in China, the cities of Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Wuhan, and Shenzhen have garnered the most bookings for the Dragon Boat Festival holiday.

But some wouldbe travelers have decided to avoid making trips around the holiday in the wake of the travel boom over the Labor Day break, leading to lower hotel prices in popular destinations, Trip.Com's research institute pointed out. 

Air ticket and hotel prices for several popular tourist destinations in China have fallen compared with the Labor Day holiday, with room rates in some places tumbling 20 percent, according to data from Trip.Com and Qunar.Com.

Editors: Shi Yi, Martin Kadiev