China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone was officially approved to let foreign-owned travel agencies carry out pilot outbound travel business.
UBTour connects tourism suppliers in Southeast Asia and enterprises in China with technology and services, with the goal of controling the supply chain through catering to the needs of suppliers.
CAAC will require airports to adjust flight schedules. Beijing Capital Airport and Shanghai Pudong Airport aim to cut departures to 75% of their capacity.
After partnering Alipay on in-flight payment, working with TravelSky on GDS-based ancillary sales, Finnair plans to bring its chatbot to WeChat and leverage predictive analytics for ancillaries growth.
Chinese tourism platform Joyu Group announced that it has received RMB 1 billion for its online platform Lvmama, and that Res Publica Industry & Finance Holdings has become its new partner.
The business mode of Yuelvhui is to “expand lifestyle and travel IP on top of meeting basic travel demands”.
China’s outdoor sports platform 117 Sport has raised tens of millions of yuan in its Pre-A round of financing. The lead investor was Beethink.
Over 50 new airports will be added in China by 2020. Some 68 runways, new terminals with a total floor area of 7.07 million square meters and 1832 aprons will also be added in the next three years.