With the application of APP reservation, facial recognition check-in, invoices issuing and membership conversion, WeChat Eco-hotel and Fliggy’s Alipay Hotel are competing with more similarities.
Ctrip Gourmet List will work with a myriad of domestic restaurants of Alibaba-backed Koubei to create a platform for integrating complementary food and destination activities.
New innovation enhances customer convenience with full range of instant payment options via Alipay and AlipayHK across the fleets of Dream Cruises.
China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone was officially approved to let foreign-owned travel agencies carry out pilot outbound travel business.
UBTour connects tourism suppliers in Southeast Asia and enterprises in China with technology and services, with the goal of controling the supply chain through catering to the needs of suppliers.
CAAC will require airports to adjust flight schedules. Beijing Capital Airport and Shanghai Pudong Airport aim to cut departures to 75% of their capacity.
After partnering Alipay on in-flight payment, working with TravelSky on GDS-based ancillary sales, Finnair plans to bring its chatbot to WeChat and leverage predictive analytics for ancillaries growth.
Chinese tourism platform Joyu Group announced that it has received RMB 1 billion for its online platform Lvmama, and that Res Publica Industry & Finance Holdings has become its new partner.