The "New Malaysia and Thailand" gold visa-free line is coming! Singapore and China will waive visas for each other for 30 days, resulting in a 90% increase in ticket searches for new flights

The mutual visa-free policy will have a positive impact on the tourism industry of the two countries.

Ctrip data show that as of 13:00 on December 7, after the announcement of the news, the search volume of Singapore increased by 80% in the hour before the announcement, the search volume of air tickets increased by 90%, and the search volume of hotels increased by 5%.

Singapore is a popular destination for Chinese outbound tourists and an important source of inbound tourists. Data show that from January to September 2023, the number of Chinese tourists entering Singapore reached 1 million, recovering to 35% of the same period in 2019, and returning to the second place in Singapore's list of inbound tourist sources.

On July 26 this year, China announced the resumption of the unilateral visa-free entry policy for Singapore, and Singaporean citizens holding ordinary passports can stay in China for 15 days without a visa for business, tourism, visiting relatives and friends or transit.

In addition to Singapore, since the beginning of this year, Georgia, Thailand, Tunisia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and other countries have also announced visa-free Chinese tourists.

At present, Ctrip has launched the Spring Festival outbound tourism special activities, the line of a number of travel routes including Singapore, the recent departure from Beijing, Singapore + Malaysia 6 days with the minimum from 2744 yuan.

According to the first financial, the same journey travel data show that as of 14 o 'clock today, Singapore tourism attention increased by 18% compared with the same period the day before, of which Guangdong, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang and other provinces and cities concerned about Singapore related tourism information users the most.

Cheng Chaogong, chief researcher of the Tongcheng Research Institute, analyzed that the arrival of the visa exemption policy between China and New Zealand will be another important benefit for the entry-exit travel market.

Singapore has always been an important business travel and tourist holiday destination for Chinese citizens, and the mutual visa exemption policy will further stimulate the enthusiasm of Chinese tourists to travel to Singapore.

After the official landing of Singapore's visa-free policy for Chinese citizens, it will connect with Malaysia and Thailand to form a new Malaysia and Thailand visa-free golden route, which is also a traditional popular route for Chinese residents to travel abroad, and is expected to further heat up Chinese citizens' travel to New Malaysia and Thailand in 2024.