China and Thailand will permanently exempted from each other's citizen visa from March to the exposure of each other's citizen visa on Tuesday (January 2), and the search volume of Thailand on Thailand on China's tourism platform has skyrocketed.
According to Reuters, the Prime Minister of Thailand announced on Tuesday that Thailand and China will implement permanent visa -free arrangements from March.The Thai government decided to implement a five -month visa -free policy on Chinese tourists last September last year. It lasted until February 29, 2024 to accelerate the recovery tourism industry.
Surging News reported that after the news of the permanent mutual exemption visa of China and Thailand was announced, on the Ctrip platform, the search volume of keywords about Thailand increased by more than 90%month ago.The number of flight searches increased by more than 40%instantly.On the Trip.com Thai site of Ctrip Group, the search popularity of China's keywords increased by more than 80%from an hour ago.
In addition, Thailand's Thai tourism search popularity increased by 158%compared with the same time the day before.Residents and cities in Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Sichuan, Zhejiang and other provinces are most concerned about Thailand tourism related news.
Qin Jing, general manager of the Public Affairs Department of Ctrip Group, said: "China and Thailand are important customers and destinations. Thailand is one of the top ten customers of China's entry tour in 2023.During the New Year's Day holiday, Thailand ranked among the top three of Chinese tourists' outbound tourist destinations.In terms of the China National Immigration Administration released data on Monday (January 1), China has tried unilateral visa -free policy on France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Malaysia on December 1 last year.As of December 31, 2023, the total number of visitors from these countries reached 214,000, an increase of 28.5%compared to November.
Among them, the number of visa -free entry holdings with ordinary passports has reached 118,000, accounting for 55.1%of the total number of entry in the six countries during the same period, and the entry purpose of 77.3%of visitors is tourism leisure and business.The China Immigration Administration is planning to further optimize entry and exit policies and services in order to go to China to engage in business, academic, tourism and other activities.
