It has concluded negotiations with partners and potential clients in Japan, and anticipates a large-scale expansion in the market next year.
Chinese tourists have made 162 million outbound trips before this year ends, Alibaba launched its first “future hotel” Flyzoo, and Ctrip tapped into social networking with a new feature.
Hotel MoMc is optimistic of the budding markets in the second-, third- and fourth-tier cities and aims to integrate local characteristics to create personalized stays.
Many entrepreneurs are leaving innovation hub Beijing Zhongguancun to join leading enterprises to start their business as an internal division.
The large volume of travel content generated by other users makes it easier to schedule our own travel itineraries, said Yuanhao Chen, general manager of product department of Ctrip.
After selling its 5.01% stake in TravelSky to China Mobile, Southern Holding will have its stake in TravelSky reduced to 9.18% and cease to be a substantial shareholder of the company.
Airbnb projects that Chinese travelers will travel to 618 cities in 88 countries and regions during the Spring Festival of 2019.
China’s biggest tourism companies have been reporting annual turnover exceeding 10 billion yuan and GMV of trillions of yuan since 2016.