The Palace Museum at Beijing’s Forbidden City has done away with admission sales at the door and will now sell tickets only online.
The turnaround time for airlines to act on data related to schedules, connections, and passenger traffic flows has come down massively.
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”.
