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A one-way flight from Beijing to Yunnan province's Kunming costs a little more than 500 yuan per person for late October and November on Ctrip's website; the holiday-week fare was 2,000 yuan.

Costs are around 200 yuan for flights from Shanghai to Fujian province's capital Fuzhou; from Zhejiang province's capital Hangzhou to Fujian's Xiamen; from Beijing to Shanxi province's Taiyuan; and from Hainan province's Haikou to Hunan province's Changsha.

In addition, hotel prices in hot tourist spots, such as Hangzhou, Xiamen, Chengdu, Sanya and Lijiang, for late October have also generally dropped by 20 to 50 percent as compared with that during the National Day holiday.

Many retired people are also taking trips to Jiuzhaigou in Sichuan province, Huangshan in Anhui province and Zhangjiajie in Hunan province, where the autumn landscape color is now developing, Ctrip's bookings show.

Hotel bookings through the agency for late October have surged. More than 50 percent of tourists have chosen high-end hotels.

Hangzhou is the most popular getaway after the holiday, and many hotels around West Lake are fully booked.

Those near hot-spring resorts are also witnessing a surge of guests, as chilly weather sets in.

At the moment, Jiangsu province's Nanjing, Suzhou and Wuxi, Yunnan's Tengchong, Hubei's Xianning, and Beijing are the most popular choices for post-holiday travelers seeking hot springs.