At Amadeus, we think NDC has the potential to deliver new benefits for all players if implemented in a standard manner that truly takes the needs of all players into consideration.
Airbnb expects business travel to account for 30% of its core business by 2020.
Foreign hotel companies need to focus on providing better content to 3rd party hotel intermediaries in China in order to step up the conversion rate for their outbound business.
In 2017, online travel agencies were the dominant channel, handing 40% of air and 47% of accommodation bookings.
Tujia might exceed Airbnb this year in the number of bookings domestically in China and is on pace to more than double its revenue, growing faster than Airbnb, one of the people familiar with the matter said.
Finnair is among those few proactive carriers that have exemplified how the blend of right e-commerce tools and data strategy backed by an agile digital team can result in product optimization as well as creation of a new benchmark around how to approach personalization.
In partnership with Standard Chartered PE, Tek Travels drives consolidation of India's B2B travel distribution landscape.
The European company, which intends to garner 50% of its bookings from China by 2019, is expanding its operations and attributes its growth to its agile scalability mode of operation.