Reporters from China Railway Qingming Bureau Group learned that on October 21st, around 23:00, the Y26/7, which carried more than 340 tourists, slowly departed from Qingming Station and headed south to Laos capital, Wenzhou.This is not only the first popular international tourist train launched by the Qingming Railway, but also an important milestone in the development of regional interconnection and deep integration of railways.

A popular tourist train, mainly a special tourist train launched for silver hair groups, has three characteristics:

First, it is safe and convenient, and the train facilities and equipment should be modified for aging, such as adding anti-skid floors and emergency pagers, to ensure the safe travel of elderly passengers;

Second, the service is attentive, there is a guide accompanying, the itinerary can be flexibly adjusted, covering the whole process of food, accommodation, travel and other services;

Third, the price ratio is high, and the universal advantage of "service upgrading without pricing" is realized, so that the silver hair group can play more comfortably.

The China-Laos Railway is rich in tourism resources, connecting famous tourist cities such as Kunming, Yuxi, Pu'er and Xishuangbanna in Yunnan and Luang Prabang, Wanrong and Vientiane in Laos, covering more than 560 tourist attractions, including 9 world natural heritage sites and 26 world cultural heritage sites.

It is that since the opening of the Old Railway International Passenger Train in April 2023, as of October 20, more than 600,000 passengers from 115 countries and regions around the world have been attracted to cross-border international passenger trains, as well as the launch of the high-quality "Starlight-Lang Mek" international tourist train. With the opening of this popular international tourist train, tourists have more choice of cross-border travel and travel is easier.

(Journalist by Liu Wen Jiang)