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Asia-Pacific online travel sales tipped to overtake North America

By Kevin May | July 15, 2016

Next year could be a landmark one in the evolution of online travel as sales in Asia-Pacific surpass those in North America for the first time. Research house eMarketer has forecast that online tra Read More

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Booking.com affiliate VNTrip scores $3 million funding round

By Kevin May | July 11, 2016

VNTrip, just a month after its official launch, has scored a Series A funding round of $3 million from an ex-Alibaba exec's investment vehicle. John Wu's FengHe Fund Management was joined by Hancoc Read More

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Going into bat - China's digital ad market explained

By Viewpoints | June 1, 2016

BAT is an acronym any travel firm with global aspirations needs to be aware of - it is the shorthand of choice for China's internet giants - Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent. Each of these businesses has Read More

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Some digital tips for destination marketers on wooing Chinese outbound travelers

By Martin Cowen | March 10, 2016

Mobile is increasingly important for the Chinese outbound market and local experiences are starting to replace the bucket list. Or so says a panel of pundits and executives from the industry in Chi Read More

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Alitrip reveals benefits of Alibaba data

By Viewpoints | March 1, 2016

Some 400 million people in China transact with Alibaba every year, and every byte of data generated is analysed, acted upon and shared across the group's many sites, including its travel marketplace A Read More

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Ctrip prepares for bumper Chinese New Year demand

By Martin Cowen | February 4, 2016

Ctrip is expecting the upcoming Chinese New Year to be its busiest ever period for outbound travel, with some six million people travelling overseas during the week-long national holiday. The Chine Read More

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Alitrip shifts focus to outbound with US agency partnerships

By Martin Cowen | January 13, 2016

Alibaba's travel brand Alitrip is building partnerships in countries where it anticipates demand from "young, affluent and mobile" Chinese travellers. The US is one of its priorities, and earlier t Read More

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Qyer picks up $60 million

By Martin Cowen | January 6, 2016

Chinese outbound specialist and travel community Qyer.com has secured $60 million in funding, with Alibaba's investment arm contributing to the Series D round. Alibaba led Qyer's $10 million Series Read More

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Qunar rings the C-suite changes

By Martin Cowen | January 4, 2016

Qunar has promoted its head of mobile to chief executive officer with immediate effect as part of a New Year management shake-up which sees current CEO and co-founder Chenchao “CC” Zhuang become a spe Read More

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Pivotal moments 2015 - the Ctrip Baidu Qunar share swap

By Martin Cowen | December 29, 2015

Ctrip ending up with a big stake in Qunar, thanks to a share swap with Qunar's majority shareholder Baidu, which now owns 25% of Ctrip, could be the 2015 deal in China which has the most meaningful lo Read More

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Alibaba's Alitrip has a distinctive travel model

By Sean O'Neil | November 25, 2015

A little more than a year ago, Alibaba, a giant Chinese e-commerce company, rebranded its travel booking website as Alitrip (去啊) -- and made it a separate unit. Unlike its well-funded rivals, Alitr Read More

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Marriott International signs up with Alitrip

By Martin Cowen | November 9, 2015

Marriott International has become the first major global hotel chain to run its own distribution channel on Alitrip, the standalone travel brand owned by China's global internet giant Alibaba Group. Read More

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A giant move - Softbank launches new OTA on Alitrip

By Martin Cowen | October 29, 2015

Japanese technology and investment firm Softbank is launching an online travel agency and will list inventory on Alitrip, the travel platform run by Alibaba. It will offer trips to Japan to Chinese Read More

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Alibaba flat-bats questions about Qunar and Ctrip share swap

By Martin Cowen | October 28, 2015

Alibaba's Q2s contain some eye-watering bigger picture e-commerce numbers but its response to a question about this week's Qunar/Ctrip share swap added little to the sum of human knowledge. Earlier Read More

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Interview: Wu on Alitrip, Alibaba's travel site, and Chinese outbound travel

By Sean O'Neil | October 6, 2015

It was a year ago this month that Alibaba, a giant Chinese e-commerce company, rebranded its travel booking website as Alitrip (去啊) -- which it then made an independent business unit. To find out t Read More

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