Last year we had over 20% growth y-o-y in arrivals and we’re expecting that kind of compounded growth for the next three to five years.
The Malaysian government has decided to implement a visa-free policy for groups of two or more Chinese visitors to attract more Chinese tourists.
In order to make the most of available real-time data, hotels need to dig deeper to set up a cohesive data strategy and requisite infrastructure.
Spring Airlines will invest over 20 billion yen in a joint venture with Sun Frontier to develop a network of the “Spring Sunny Hotels” in popular Japanese destinations.
Softbank has set up an inbound tourism OTA that will be launched on Alitrip, Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba’s travel platform, on November 11.
TravelDaily China led a delegation of Ctrip, Alitrip, Yiqifei and JointWisdom to spak at the ITB Asia conference.
Great Britain’s efforts to attract more Chinese visitors paid off with visitor numbers between April and June this year up 33% y-o-y, according to official statistics.
Priceline purchased from 5,600 to 129,200 of Ctrip’s ADS which brings Priceline’s holdings stake in Ctrip up to 12.63% in total.
