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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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Hacking China travelers' passion for mobile

By Gene Quinn | September 14, 2015

Next time you wrestle with an annoying mobile travel app to plan a trip, have confidence that help is on the way. It might just come from a Shanghai development team that hangs out at Jin Jiang Int Read More

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Ni hao, Hangzhou - THack is going back to China

By PhocusWire | September 3, 2015

We loved it China so much last year, we're bringing our THack roadshow of developer hackathons back for a second time. Produced once again with TravelDaily, THack China will run over the course of Read More

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Never mind market turmoil, $2 billion mammoth round for taxi app Didi Kuaidi

By Martin Cowen | July 10, 2015

Didi Kuaidi, the leading taxi app business in China, has raised $2 billion from existing and new investors, giving it a warchest of some $3.5 billion. Didi Kuaidi was formed when Didi Dache and Kua Read More

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Travelport nails China coup with Alitrip link-up

By Martin Cowen | July 6, 2015

Alibaba Group's standalone travel business Alitrip has signed "a content and data partnership agreement" with Travelport. The deal has a number of strands. In terms of content, there is an option f Read More

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Wanda enters Chinese OTA sector with $500m+ LY.com investment

By Martin Cowen | July 5, 2015

China's online travel market continues to attract not only eye-watering levels of investment but also new entrants, with LY.com getting RMB3.2 billion ( $515 million) from Wanda Group. Wanda is a c Read More

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SnapShot Travel secures Euro 25 million for hotel analytics tech

By Kevin May | July 1, 2015

Significant jump in profile and expectation ahead for hotel technology startup Snapshot Travel after securing a Euro 25 million investment round. The company first appeared on the scene in 2013 (TL Read More

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Plenty of room? Heavyweight-backed, China gets a brand-new online travel agency

By Martin Cowen | May 26, 2015

The hyper-competitive online travel market in China welcomes - if that's the world - a new entrant with news that HNA Group and NetEase are combining to launch a brand-new business. The announcemen Read More

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China's Tuniu secures $500 million led by JD.com

By Martin Cowen | May 8, 2015

Chinese OTA Tuniu.com has announced a $500 million investment from a group of investors including Ctrip.com. However, e-commerce giant JD.com led the investment, putting in $350 million and becomin Read More

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