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Top Online Travel Booking Websites in China

January 11, 2010

According to a latest China online travel booking report by iResearch, China’s total online travel booking revenue in 2009 has increased to $3.74 billion yuan (about US $548 million) from year 2008′s $2.94 billion yuan (US$431 million), up 27.2%. The top online travel booking websites (by revenue) are: Ctrip: 55.6% eLong.com: 9.9% mangocity.com: 6.2% 118114.cn: [...]

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TripAdvisor Buying Chinese Travel Search Engine Kuxun

November 2, 2009

TripAdvisor is buying Kuxun.cn, a Chinese flight and hotel search engine, at an undisclosed amount (the rumor is, it is 12 million USD). TripAdvisor, owned by Expedia, plans to invest over US$50 million in China through late 2011. The budget includes buying Kuxun, launching its own Chinese travel-review Web site, Daodao.com and hiring more staff. [...]

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Video: Opportunities and Challenges of Chinese Online Travel Companies

October 28, 2009

William Bao Bean gives his views on what opportunities and challenges the Chinese online travel companies are facing. via Traveldaily

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Top Commercial Airline Websites in Hong Kong 26/09/2009

October 3, 2009

According to Hitwise, these are the top sites by visits in Hong Kong for the week ending 26/09/2009: Emirates Airlines www.emirates.com Jetstar www.jetstar.com Tiger Airways www.tigerairways.com Singapore Airlines www.singaporeair.com AirAsia www.airasia.com SilkAir www.silkair.net Cathay Pacific www.cathaypacific.com Malaysia Airlines www.malaysiaairlines.com Cebu Pacific Air www.cebupacificair.com Qantas Airways www.qantas.com.au

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Online Travel still Strong in China: short haul trips most popular

September 1, 2009

According to the latest China Outbound Travel Monitor from Nielsen, 85% of Chinese travelers said that they “definitely” or “probably” will travel outside the country at some point over the next 12 months. The report also finds that short haul trips, such as those to Hong Kong (the most mentioned place to visit), Macau or [...]

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Baidu Promotes Japan Travel Online

June 15, 2009

Japan now works with Baidu to promote Japan travel online. The deal is said to be over one million yuan. There are about one million Chinese travelling to Japan every year. Japan tourism board starts promoting Japan travel to Chinese, giving individual travel visa to affluent Chinese in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou from this July.

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WOM Is the Top Source for Chinese in Travelling

June 5, 2009

iResearch’s recent travel related research found that 66.6% people gather travel information from friends and relatives, which shows potential of word-of-mouth marketing. Other ways people get travel information are shown below: Recommendations from friends: 66.6% Travel websites (e.g. ctrip): 45.2% Search engines: 44.4% Traditional media (newspaper, magazine, TV): 35.4% Travel section of portal sites: 33.8% [...]

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