If finalised, NetsPay will be the first third-party digital wallet to link with WeChat for cross-border payments in China.
“Looking at the year to date, we see a setback in Chinese tourism arrivals of just under 5%,” said Olivier Jager, CEO and co-founder of ForwardKeys.
Ctrip’s international air ticketing business has maintained solid growth momentum, increasing 40% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2018.
The start-up plans to open its first business base in the U.S by the end of 2018, and is thinking about opening its second office, maybe in Osaka, following Tokyo in Japan.
During this year's National Day holiday, the two shops in Sanya and Haikou received about 160,300 visitors and generated 240 million yuan in revenue, up 4.4% and 16.8% year-on-year.
Zomato has raised a total of USD 651 million in funding in 11 rounds including this one.
The system in Shanghai moved ahead of a planned deployment of facial recognition technology in Beijing’s new $12 billion airport.
The VIR (Verband Internet Reisevertrieb) is organising a combined stand for tourism companies from Germany at ITB China 2019 – The German National Tourist Board, Solamento and Sunny Cars already confirmed their participation.
North America, the Caribbean and Western Europe remain the most popular destinations for incentive travel, with destination appeal being the top criteria for selecting one destination over another followed by overall safety and value for money.
Social Tables has raised $22.5 million in funding since its inception.
TravelPerk raised almost $75 million in total funding since established in 2015. It gets bigger customers all the time that have travel budgets of over £10 million.
Google Hotel Ads has become the most profitable metasearch engine, with a 150% growth compared to the same period last year, when it only represented 26%.
Marriott hopes to merge the three hotel rewards programs in a single, seamless technological transition, but encounters complaints about various issues such as user login, point conversion, and customer service quality.
Booking.com has spent $39.9 million dollars so far this year in the United States on one national TV spot showcasing its tours and activities offerings, TripAdvisor plans to spend more than $100 million on TV ads globally this year.
The latest round brings the company's total funding to date to $62 million. Stay Alfred has a projected 2018 run rate of $110 million.
Thomas Cook will acquire 24% stake in Mumbai-based Traveljunkie, which recommends destinations and help people plan their trips and book activities, hotels and flights, the tour operator said in a stock-market disclosure. Traveljunkie serves people traveling to Thailand, Indonesia and Turkey.
