WeChat Pay can be used in the Hong Kong Disneyland starting from May 24, 2018.
Sports Events 365 has also initiated activity on a B2B basis with 20 Chinese tourism and sports tourism companies that will purchase tickets directly from Sports Events 365 on a permanent basis.
The property will become be the first luxury London hotel to implement Alipay across the entire hotel, as well as Simpson’s in the Strand.
Non-GAAP net loss dropped from 226.2 million yuan in Q1 2017 to 23.8 million yuan ($3.8 million), revenues from packaged tours jumped by 13.1% to 402.7 million yuan ($64.2 million).
The latest International travel and migration: April 2018 showed overall arrival numbers up 5.4%, with considerable increases with Chinese and Korean arrivals both up 13.6% respectively.
Market speculation over a Didi IPO has been mounting for the past year. According to a HKET report, Didi has been in pre-listing consultations with investment banks since April.
Ctrip’s James Liang believes that China will enjoy more opportunities in the tourism market if it can extend visa-free policies to more countries.
Huaxue Zoo told 36Kr that iSNOW has so far served more than 100 ski resorts and ice rinks, and expects to provide services to 50-100 more customers in 2018, increasing the total number to 200.
Hyatt wants to get into the corporate travel game by providing basic travel management tools to businesses that stay at Hyatt properties.
If the traveler pursues a claim and receives a payment, they pay Service either 30% of that value or a flat rate of $49 for a one-year membership that waives fees.
Companies should offer travelers tools that meet these minimum requirements: dynamic information, advanced design, integration with social media and seamless switching between different devices.
Marriott has signed a series of deals with technology companies to expand and open up its Marriott Moments platform of bookable destination activities.
The deal will take Minor International’s stake to 9.7%. The single biggest individual shareholder is still HNA Group, which is busy trying to sell off its 30% stake.
Zunum Aero has also received investment from JetBlue, racing competitors such as Europe’s Airbus SE in hybrid-electric plane sector.
Trekksoft provides software system for tours and activities suppliers, alongside the TrekkPay payment platform, TrekkConnect channel manager tool and Myobis system.
According to SimilarWeb, TripAdvisor‘s monthly traffic was in the first place among the top 10 OTAs in the US, but its conversion rate was only 0.1%.
