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Hoteliers should nevertheless embrace the cleaning and social distancing challenges, because this is the new service expectation.
But in addition to the challenges any travel company faces in the Covid-19 era, the problem for most start-up, short-term rental platforms is their small size.
The average daily room rate for all hotels in operation was RMB142, a decrease of 17.4% year-over-year.
Splitty has stood out from typical online travel services by offering “mixed rate” hotel deals.