China announced that New Zealand will be included in the range of unilateral visa-free countries, which will further promote personnel, economic and trade exchanges between the two sides, and be bullish for inbound tourism development. Half an hour after the news was released, the data of Ctrip International version showed that the search volume of New Zealand tourists for China-related keywords increased by 65% compared with the previous day's data. Qin Jing, Vice President of Ctrip Group, said that New Zealand and China are each other's important destinations and source markets. Since December last year, the direct flights between China and New Zealand have resumed to the pre-epidemic level, which provides support for the growth of tourists from both sides. Since the beginning of this year, the number of inbound tourism orders to New Zealand has increased by nearly 6% year-on-year, ranking the 15th largest source of tourists to China.