Beijing**Client|Reporter Pan Fuda On January 28, China and Thailand officially signed a mutual visa exemption agreement. After the news was announced, the search popularity of Thailand-related keywords on Ctrip's platform increased by more than 7 times compared with the previous day, of which air tickets and hotels increased by more than 6 times month-on-month. Tourists from Shanghai, Beijing, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Shandong and other places search for Thailand more. The most searched destinations in Thailand by Chinese tourists are Bangkok, Phuket, Chiang Mai, Koh Samui and Pattaya. Ctrip's international version of TripOn the Thailand website, the search popularity of China-related keywords increased by more than 4 times compared with the previous day, and Shanghai, Chengdu, Harbin, Shenzhen, Beijing, Tianjin, Chongqing, Zhangjiajie and other cities are the most searched cities by Thai tourists. Up to now, during the 2024 Spring Festival, Chinese tourists' travel orders to Thailand have increased by more than 13 times year-on-year, among which residents from Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Kunming, Shenzhen and other places have more travel orders to Thailand. Among them, parent-child families accounted for 44%, women accounted for 58% of the order users, 47% of the post-80s, and 33% of the post-90s. At the same time, Thai tourists' travel orders to China increased by more than 8 times year-on-year, and the popular destinations are Shanghai, Kunming, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Beijing, Xiamen, Harbin, Nanjing, Nanning, etc. 
Qin Jing, vice president of Trip.com Group, said that the permanent visa exemption between China and Thailand will be officially implemented from March 1, seamlessly connecting with the visa-free policy for Chinese tourists, which originally ended on February 29. After the signing of the agreement, it will greatly facilitate the exchanges between the people of China and Thailand. China and Thailand complement each other's tourism resources, and China is also the closest ice and snow tourism destination to Thailand, and the permanent visa exemption will further promote Thai tourists to travel to China, which is expected to promote Thailand to become the top three source countries for Chinese inbound tourism in 2024. At the same time, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, a popular outbound travel route for Chinese tourists, have achieved mutual visa-free travel with China, and the "go-and-go" travel will greatly promote the prosperity of tourism in China and Southeast Asia. According to the data, up to now, during the Spring Festival, the travel orders of Chinese tourists to Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand increased by more than 15 times year-on-year, of which the travel orders to Singapore and Thailand increased by more than 13 times year-on-year, and the travel orders to Malaysia increased by more than 22 times year-on-year. During the spring period, the travel orders of Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand tourists to China increased by 9 times year-on-year, and the year-on-year growth of Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand increased by more than 14 times, 11 times and 6 times respectively. 
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