Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are eager for a slice of the Wi-Fi market as a POE, a source of users and customer behavior data and rich app showplace.
LuxuryRetreats, the luxury villa rental platform, has raised $11 million in a Series B from previous investor iNovia Capital. This brings the company’s total to $16 million, following a $5 million Series A in 2012.
With 49% of UK travellers buying their holidays online, travel brands need to be making full use of the channels available to them in order to secure sales.
Countries around the world are setting up official accounts in Chinese SNS app Wechat and blog Weibo in an effort to attract Chinese tourism.
SiteMinder is looking to trigger further growth of its booking system provider strategy in Asia by acquiring Globekey.
Major appliance retail chain Guomei has announced it will launch an online hotel booking service in the near future.
Travel bookers prefer airline and hotel websites and apps to online travel agencies.
News is filtering out that Booking.com has advised some hoteliers that it's increasing commissions in certain major Australian markets from 12% to 15%.