TravelDaily China led a delegation of Ctrip, Alitrip, Yiqifei and JointWisdom to spak at the ITB Asia conference.
Great Britain’s efforts to attract more Chinese visitors paid off with visitor numbers between April and June this year up 33% y-o-y, according to official statistics.
Overseas island travel specialists Qulv announced it received US$20 million in its A Series financing round from Yuantai Investment Partners
Shanghai Disney expects 10 million admissions at its opening, 95% of from mainland China and over 70% of visitors from the Yangtze River Delta region.
A total of 526 million trips were made nationally in China over the National Day holidays and RMB421.3 billion was spent during the period, up 10.7% and 17.9%.
The Palace Museum at Beijing’s Forbidden City has done away with admission sales at the door and will now sell tickets only online.
China’s outbound travel market grew 36.6% y-o-y during the four-day National Day Holiday. Japan, Korea and Thailand the top three outbound destinations.
Wanda Group’s chairman Jianlin Wang has an ambitious plan to make tourism a key pillar of profitability for the group.
