HitchHiker has gained another local cooperation partner in Flightroutes24, which now offers users of HitchHiker’s Flight API and Agent application the possibility to access a comprehensive range of Chinese domestic and international bargain flights from China and Hong Kong.
Flightroutes24 is one of the leading international air ticket wholesalers based in Mainland China and in Hong Kong. The company is part of the Meituan-Dianping Group, China's largest and rapidly growing "online-to-offline" e-commerce group, which currently provides 600 million active users with a wide range of services, such as food deliveries or rental bikes, as well as a broad range of travel services.
"The cooperation with HitchHiker not only expands our exposure within Germany and Europe, we also hope that the partnership will mutually develop our businesses and enhance our products to generate the greatest value for our customers", Nancy Zhou, Senior Director of Business Development of Flightroutes24 Travel Company Limited, comments on the cooperation.
Flightroutes24 provides both negotiated, public and market-specific fares from scheduled airlines as well as fares from regional low-cost airlines such as 9 Air, Eastar Jet, Juneyao Airlines, Lucky Air, Spring Airlines, Urumqi Air and China West Air.
Through this cooperation, HitchHiker is expanding its services for OTAs, travel agencies and tour operators with customers or destinations in China.
HitchHiker GmbH is a leading and independent provider of software solutions for the global travel industry based in Frankfurt on the Main, Germany. Founded in 1991, HitchHiker has developed solutions for the entire airfare management and ticketing process as well as powerful online booking solutions for all types of flights and ancillaries. HitchHiker’s customers in 27 countries comprise some of the leading online and traditional travel agencies, tour operators, consolidators, travel management companies and airlines worldwide.
Flightroutes24 is one of the biggest B2B global air ticket consolidators based in mainland China and Hong Kong, it is part of the Meituan-Dianping Group, China's largest online-to-offline e-commerce group.
As the leading local service e-commerce platform with the largest market transactions, Meituan-Dianping has over 600 million users and 4.5 million business partners providing various services, covering over 2800 cities in China and the world.
Backed by 600 million users from Meituan-Dianping, Meituan Travel already had a total of 100 million users by April, 2017. Meituan Travel's accommodation booking surpassed 200 million, and sold over 100 million attraction tickets in 2017. YoY growth of trains and flights exceeded 300%.
With strong support from Meituan-Dianping, Flightroutes24 aims to provide business partners with the safest, most reliable products and services as well as great opportunities to explore the Chinese market.
