China’s traveling industry is booming these years. With various choices of travel companies, Chinese people are more enthusiastic about traveling ever than before. Among all online travel companies in China, Qunar.com, Ctrip, eLong and LY.com are the most popular ones by total number of reached users nowadays.
Qunar’s daily reach on mobile device exceeded 2 million in China online travel industry in June 2014, which made it top online travel company by mobile reach from April to June 2014, followed by Ctrip, LY.com and eLong according to data from iResearch.
Qunar.com total revenues for the second quarter of 2014 were RMB400.4 million (US$64.5 million), an increase of 127.3% year-on-year; the number of total mobile app activation exceeded 270 million, which was much bigger than the number of any other online travel company in China.
Most of the online travel companies had increased total number of air-tickets booking on mobile device in Q1 and Q2 2014. And Qunar.com accounted for 38% of air tickets booking in Q2 2014, which had a great growth rate from prior quarter in 2014.
The rate of hotel booking on mobile device of online travel companies was over 40% which shows online travel company can stimulate hotel ‘s development.