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China's new unilateral visa-free travel to nine countries accounted for more than 30% of inbound travel orders

In order to further facilitate Chinese and foreign personnel exchanges, China has decided to expand the scope of visa-free countries, and from November 30, 2024 to December 31, 2025, China will offer visa-free access to ordinary passport holders from Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Malta, Estonia, Latvia and Japan on a trial basis.

Half an hour after the announcement of the news, Ctrip's overseas platform European sites, Japanese sites, and China-related destination search popularity increased by 65% and 112% respectively. In particular, direct flights from many parts of Japan to domestic destinations have surged in popularity. Since November, the number of flights from Japan to China has increased by more than 70% compared with last year, and the average one-way price including tax has fallen by about 15%. At present, on November 30, flights from Japan to Shenyang, Qingdao, Nanjing, Chengdu, Guilin and other places have tickets of less than 1,000 yuan.

Up to now, the recovery rate of international flights between China and Japan is about 75% of the same period in 2019, although it has not fully recovered, but since the beginning of this year, Japan has ranked first in the popular destinations for Chinese tourists to travel abroad, and Japan has ranked top three in the source countries of Chinese inbound tourists. The introduction of the unilateral visa-free policy will help facilitate the return of Chinese in Japan to visit relatives and travel, and further promote the tourism exchanges between China and Japan, and promote the development of domestic tourism products for Japanese tourists.

Data show that since the beginning of this year, orders from Chinese tourists to Japan have increased by more than 160% year-on-year, and Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka are popular destinations for Chinese tourists. Japanese tourist orders into China also increased by 140% year-on-year, except for first-tier cities such as Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Dalian, Hangzhou, Chengdu and Qingdao are also popular domestic destinations for Japanese tourists.

144-hour transit visa-free and unilateral visa-free policies are important driving forces for the growth of China's inbound tourism. Together with the new 9 countries, China has implemented the unilateral visa-free policy of nearly 40 countries, as of now, tourist orders from these countries have accounted for more than 30% of China's inbound tourism orders, with the release of the visa-free effect, China's inbound tourism will usher in further growth.

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The number of visa-free tourists visiting China has increased

The cultural and creative crafts of Xing Li, the delicious cheese jerky toast, the almond tofu milk tea of Lao She Teahouse... Daxing Airport's food and cultural and creative goods frequently "out of the circle", which has attracted many passengers to the airport in advance. Tourists arriving in Beijing from all over the country and even the world will also take the distinctive commercial shops at Daxing Airport port as their first stop. Recently, Daxing Airport customs disclosed data, Daxing airport port health licensing enterprises have exceeded 500, the first three quarters of 2024, its sales, passenger flow increased significantly.

On November 1, China further expanded the scope of visa-free countries, for Slovakia, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein, South Korea ordinary passport holders trial visa-free policy. Among them, the popularity of South Korea's tourism in China has increased significantly. South Korean tourism e-commerce platform data show that from November 1 to 5, the platform to China with group tour product bookings increased by 91%, and the number of bookings increased by 60%.