The scale of transactions in China’s online travel industry reached RMB307.79 billion in 2014, up 38.9% from the previous year.
Youche Technology, the operator of top Chinese car rental company CAR Inc’s UCAR chauffeur service, has raised US$550 million in its B Series financing round.
Uber is setting up in the Shanghai Experimental Free Trade Zone by incorporating Shanghai Wubo Info Techn with registered capital of RMB2.1 billion.
Bus-share startup DadaBus announced it raised RMB200 million (approx: US$31.4 million) in its B Series financing round.
Wanda Group’s chairman Jianlin Wang has an ambitious plan to make tourism a key pillar of profitability for the group.
Maitao has made a full acquisition of Wuhan-based Daocaoren Camp and converted it into its Wuhan “branch”.
Selling travel products is a complex proposition, compared to traditional online retail. We assess how Alipay, as a specialist in the payment eco-system, is playing its part in travel e-commerce.
A major component of real-time bidding or RTB is to act on several layers of data. Ctrip and Zamplus provide an insight on how to plan for such digital marketing campaigns.