On May 9th and 13th, 2025, the HeyTrip Global Hotel Partner Appreciation Night was successfully held in Bangkok and Phuket under the theme "Hey Hotels, Trip Together". Following the first global brand promotion event in Bangkok in 2024, HeyTrip continues to deepen its presence in the Thai market, growing together with numerous quality hotel partners.
The event attracted nearly 500 hotel representatives from Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket, Koh Samui, and other regions. The atmosphere was lively, with both long-term partners and many newly joined partners in attendance.
HeyTrip Becomes a Key Partner of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT)
During the event, HeyTrip received a video message from Ms. Su Xingjie, Director of the Guangzhou Office of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). She fully recognized HeyTrip’s positive contributions in promoting high-end Thai hotel products in the Chinese market and reviewed the luxury hotel marketing campaign jointly conducted by both parties in March-April this year.
TAT will continue to work with HeyTrip to leverage its channel sales and content marketing advantages to further enhance the influence of Thai tourism products in the Chinese market.
Technology-Driven Growth — Accelerating in the Thai Market
HeyTrip Founder and CEO Mr. Huang Lihuan shared the company’s development achievements and future outlook over the past year. He pointed out that despite the temporary slowdown in outbound travel demand to Thailand due to certain social events in China in 2024, HeyTrip maintained steady growth.
In 2024, HeyTrip actively expanded its international markets in Southeast Asia, Japan and Korea, Europe, the United States, and the Middle East, with non-China market orders increasing by 58% year-on-year and total orders from Thailand increasing by 25% year-on-year.
Currently, over 20% of HeyTrip’s workforce is involved in R&D, and the company continues to increase its investment in technology to enhance platform stability and service efficiency. In the future, HeyTrip will continue to empower its business with technology, further expand its global presence, and bring more stable and diversified international order growth to partner hotels.
Accelerating Market Expansion — Stimulating New Growth Momentum
Mr. Roy Zhou, Head of Thailand Direct Sourcing at HeyTrip’s International Products Department, shared the 2024 business progress in the Thai market. He stated that HeyTrip will continue to expand its hotel partner network and sales team to support business growth while accelerating destination market development.
He mentioned that the Thai market is facing multiple challenges brought by the overall environment. In response, HeyTrip will deepen its layout in ADR improvement, brand building, and market expansion, assisting partner hotels to achieve more stable and balanced development throughout the year, aiming for long-term mutual success.
Global Network Expansion — Empowering Thai Hotel Growth
HeyTrip B2B Channels and Brand Marketing Center Director Ms. Claire Li shared that HeyTrip has now connected with over 1 million hotel resources worldwide, serving more than 10,000 B2B distribution channel clients, covering travel agencies, TMCs, resource integrators, and content traffic platforms.
HeyTrip not only actively expands its global B2B channels but also deeply engages with platforms such as Douyin and Xiaohongshu, combining short video marketing and influencer promotion to help Thai hotels increase exposure and conversion in the Chinese market.
In addition, HeyTrip, in cooperation with TAT, launched the "Thai Exclusive Luxury Campaign", promoting high-end Thai hotel products through multi-platform marketing, continuously expanding the influence of Thai hotels in the global market.
Hand in Hand for Mutual Success — Grateful for Your Support
At the event, HeyTrip specially recognized 15 quality hotel partners for their outstanding achievements in global hotel sales on the HeyTrip platform over the past year, encouraging mutual growth and continuous progress.
This recognition not only reflects HeyTrip’s high appreciation of quality partners but also further strengthens the close connection between the platform and hotel partners. In the future, HeyTrip will continue to work with more excellent hotel partners, optimizing the platform ecosystem and achieving mutually beneficial, high-quality development.
As the atmosphere of the dinner banquet became more and more lively, the lucky draw session commenced. HeyTrip expressed its gratitude to 29 sponsoring hotels for their enthusiastic participation and strong support, providing a variety of generous gifts, adding more joy and surprise to the dinner event.
HeyTrip expresses its sincere thanks to the Thai hotel partners for their trust and support over the past year. In the future, HeyTrip will continue to deepen cooperation with hotels in various regions of Thailand, expand the supply of quality resources, improve platform operation efficiency, and assist more Thai hotel partners in tapping into the Chinese and global source markets, achieving sustained business growth.
