The travel app Qunar, hotel and restaurant listing apps Meituan and other travel apps all removed Japan's APA hotel, which provided books openly denying the Nanjing Massacre in China and "comfort women" in Korea during World War II, after netizens complained the formerly banned hotel re-appeared on these Chinese travel apps.
Qunar said it had removed 70 APA chain hotels when the APA incident occurred early this year but failed to remove two of the chain hotels because the hotels failed to properly identify themselves online.
China's National Tourism Administration said in January that it required all overseas travel companies and travel apps to suspend dealing with this hotel and urged Chinese tourists to boycott the chain, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
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