Looking wistfully back at 2014, I’d say a pivotal moment in travel technology came when Hilton Worldwide became the first major hotel chain to fully embrace mobile apps.
Breadtrip raised US$50 million in its round C financing, Tencent led the investment , joined by Fidelity Growth Partners Asia and China Broadband.
We caught up with 10 online travel agency and hotel CEOs, as well as an executive chairman to see what their companies are up to in terms of rolling out the next phase in mobile innovations.
With the largest pool of smartphone users in the world, China has become a petri dish for marketers and technology companies alike to test ways to get consumers to buy both online and off.
More than half of all mobile phone users in China will own and use a smartphone in 2015, eMarketer estimates.
LY.com and Wanda Tourism partner in the areas of product development, procurement, brand marketing and mobile internet.
Utrip, the travel planning startup, said today that it has raised $850,000. That is in addition to the $750,000 investment it received last spring.
If we want to improve our positioning on Booking.com as rapidly as possible in order to increase sales, it is obvious what needs to be done.