ChinaTravelNews talks to Alan Chang, Airbnb’s managing director for Northeast Asia about the Chinese traveler and Airbnb’s goals in the country.
Luxury lifestyle online community YHouse has received funding of RMB120 million (approx: US$18.8 million) in its B Series financing round.
Youpu, a startup specializing in independent itinerary planning for outbound travel, announced it raised several million yuan in its A Series financing round.
Book2Meet, a platform for the online booking of meeting rooms, has raised another Euro 2 million.
Finally, with bated breath, both the TravelDaily Innovator Award and People’s Choice Award of the event were presented to shopping site, shopnfly.
TravelDaily Conference’s 1st roundtable discussed “how the world’s travel and tourism industry can capitalize on the growth of Chinese outbound travel.”
Tuniu became the first OTA stepping into the tourism factoring field as it announced on September 16 that it has been approved to establish two commercial factoring companies with an investment of RMB1.3 billion.
Priceline has pumped more than US$100 million to buy Ctrip shares in the open market recently, boosting its holding in Ctrip to 13.44% as of September 14.