Prague is snowing, and coming to Sanya feels very warm and comfortable. "On the 22nd, Czech tourist Nikol took the Sanya Prague flight to Sanya." I have always longed for the sea, and a smooth landing is a good start, which makes me look forward to this journey.
The day before, flight DV481 took off from Sanya Phoenix International Airport and headed to Prague, Czech Republic. The Sanya Prague route has been opened, which is China's first seventh air traffic rights route.
On the 22nd, the flight carrying the first batch of 115 passengers arrived in Sanya. This means that Sanya has made new breakthroughs in exploring the inbound tourism market.
According to Sanya Phoenix International Airport, the Sanya round-trip route to Prague opened this time is operated by Kazakhstan's Skate Airlines, with a technical stopover in Bishkek. The departure flight number is DV481, departing from Sanya at 8:05 every Sunday and arriving in Prague at 22:20; The inbound flight number is DV482, departing from Prague at 23:50 every Sunday and returning to Sanya at 12:30 the next day.
Sytnik Vladimir, Vice President of Skater Airlines, stated that Sanya is a key city for the development of Hainan Free Trade Port, while Prague is an important tourism and cultural center city in Europe. This route has clear market demand, favorable policy environment, and good conditions for pilot launch, making it an ideal entry point for implementing the seventh air traffic rights transportation mode.
Stanis Vladimir believes that in the long run, China remains an important destination for international travelers, and Hainan Free Trade Port is striving to build an international tourism consumption center, laying a good foundation for the growth of air transportation; In the future, we will consider further expanding the route network with Sanya as the hub on the existing basis.
In the view of He Jin, President of Hainan Saiofei International Travel Agency Co., Ltd., the opening of the round-trip route from Sanya to Prague will help Sanya's tourism enterprises explore new inbound tourism markets and attract more European guests to Sanya; At the same time, it provides new outbound routes for domestic tourists to travel to Europe, facilitating their transit in Sanya and opening up a multi stop travel plan.
As of now, Sanya has opened a total of 41 overseas routes, connecting 32 overseas destinations. In the first 11 months of this year, Sanya received a total of 924,600 inbound tourists, a year-on-year increase of 42.92%; The total expenditure of inbound tourists was 811 million US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 67.11%.
Wu Xiaolin, Secretary of the Party Committee of Sanya Tourism Development Bureau, stated that Sanya will leverage the advantages of Hainan Free Trade Port's visa free policy to further optimize customs clearance procedures, improve the multilingual service guarantee system, create diversified and composite tourism product routes such as "tourism+health care", "tourism+folk customs", and "tourism+awards", continuously enrich international tourism consumption scenarios, and meet the diverse and personalized needs of inbound tourists.