Culinary platform Eatwith announced new partnerships with Ctrip (WeiLingDui), Qyer, Tongcheng, Meituan-Dianping and Mafengwo, in a move to bring authentic food experiences around the globe.
Islands pools together existing room inventories in centrally located neighborhoods and lease them at 80% of the operating cost, to help generate returns on otherwise unused room stocks.
Hotel report projects that China’s hotel industry will gross RMB 5 trillion from accommodation and F&B services in 2018. Jinjiang, BTG Homeinns and HUAZHU have been identified as the three biggest hotel groups.
Hotel reviews left by families with children increased at the fastest rate in 2017, and hotel facilities were still most the most reviewed area by hotel guests.
By integrating “films” and “hotels”, Film Hotel will create a new differentiated mid-scale hotel brand.
In addition to knowing about consumers’ activities, Shiji is set to learn details about their business travel via Baoku’s cloud-based travel management platform.
Alipay parent company Ant Financial and CCB International are new investors, and both will participate in Octopus’s new S2B initiative.
DidaTravel will continue to increase direct procurement of hotel resources, expand overseas sales and domestic offline channels after completion of the current round.