The train starts from Fengtai Station in Beijing and passes some famous tourist attractions such as Xishuangbanna in Yunnan and Chibi City in Hubei Province, both in China, as well as Luang Prabang and Vang Vieng in Laos.
The round trip takes 15 days and runs along the Beijing-Guangzhou and Shanghai-Kunming railway lines. From this last point we continue along the China-Laos Railway to Vientiane.
The 1.35-kilometer cross-border rail link has been in operation since the end of 2021 and carried more than 3.1 million passengers and more than 26.8 million tons of goods as of September last year.
In the first nine months of this year, Laos achieved a record 285 percent increase in international visitor arrivals with 2.4 million travelers, an unprecedented 285 percent increase compared to the same period in 2022.
The majority of tourists received during this period (almost a million) came from Thailand, followed by Vietnam with more than 600,000 and the Asian giant from where around 480,000 passengers arrived, many of them by train. Laos-China.
Next year, Laos aims to welcome at least 4.6 million domestic and foreign visitors and generate estimated revenue of about $712 million from the concept.
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