Hilton posted a 7.6% RevPAR climb in Q4 from Asia Pacific as it benefited from addition of more hotels in China, while rival Marriott said its China RevPAR grew 9.1% in the quarter.
Airbnb claims that over the course of the decade since launch, travelers have checked into an Airbnb-secured property almost 300 million times.
The GCC countries, which are Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman, currently attract 1.9% of China's total outbound market, up from 1.3% in 2012.
Air service is impacted by high-speed rail, but it does not lead to a significant reduction of passengers; and the new rail industry is seeing its most vibrant growth in China.
Some 28.7 million foreign tourists entered Japan in 2017, driven by Chinese tourists taking advantage of more frequent low-cost flights to Japan.
The start of a 144-hour visa-free waiver policy for international travelers to Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province will create a boom in local tourism, industry insiders said.
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Some 76% of the searches on Ctrip for hotels were related to star rating, most frequently about “five star/luxury hotel” or “four star/high-end hotel”, while only 11.61% of these searches were price-related.