The total number of China’s tourists was estimated to exceed 4.1 billion person-trips in 2015, and more travellers would choose short-term accommodations during their trips.
Tokyo: Top Destination for Chinese Tourists on National Day
According to a report by the Chinese online tourism website (tao.117go.com), as high as 61% of Chinese tourists have ordered air tickets and hotels in advance for over 10 days tour, by combining Mid-autumn Festival and Chinese National Day holiday together.
China Hotel Reservation Overview 2015
In recent years, with the penetration of online travel applications and improvement of people’s living standard, more and more people chose to travel on holidays. The total number of outbound and inbound tourists in China increased by 9.8% to 127 million in H1 2015 according to Mafengwo.cn.
China Online Accommodation Booking Market in Q2 2015
In Q2 2015, China’s online accommodations booking market reached 19.52 billion yuan (US$3.09 billion), with an increase of 15.9% QoQ and 63.5% YoY.
Over 100 Million Chinese Travelled Abroad in 2014
Recently Hotels.cn released the fourth ” Survey on Chinese tourists traveling abroad in 2015″, which reveals that the sustained and steady growing China’s overseas travel market has brought enormous business opportunities to the global tourism and hotels. In 2014, the number of Chinese traveled abroad exceeded for the first time 107 million, with an increase […]
China Online Air-ticket Market Exceeded RMB190 Bln in 2014
China online travel was a RMB307.79 billion (US$50.33 billion) market with an increase of 38.9% in 2014 according to iResearch. Online ticket market, online hotel booking market and online vacation exceeded RMB193.07 billion (US$31.57 billion), RMB63.25 billion (US$10.34 billion) and RMB44.88 billion (US$7.33 billion) respectively in 2014.
Mobile Represented Almost Half of Qunar’s Revenue in Q4 2014
Qunar total revenues for the fourth quarter of 2014 were RMB519.8 million (US$83.8 million), an increase of 107.1% year-on-year. Mobile revenues were RMB257.5 million (US$41.5 million), an increase of 400.7% year-on-year, representing 49.5% of total and 52.3% of pay-for-performance (“P4P”) revenues, compared to 20.5% and 22.6%, respectively, in the corresponding period of 2013.
eLong Brand Room Nights Booking 55% on Mobile in Q4 2014
eLong’s hotel room nights stayed in the fourth quarter of 2014 increased 27% to 9.4 million room nights compared to 7.4 million in Q4 2013 according to eLong unaudited financial results.
Australia is the Top Luxury Travel Destination in China
According to Hurun Chinese Luxury Consumer Survey 2015, Chinese luxury travelers on average go on business trip for eight days a month and the super rich are away for 11 days a month. And they also take 8 and 12 days of holiday respectively, one more than last year.
Qunar Partners with 22 of World’s Premium High-end Hotel Groups
Qunar announced its alliance with 22 of the world’s premium high-end hotel groups. The hotel groups, which include Wyndham, Club Med, Banyan Tree, Howard Johnson, and Millennium, will open their global inventories to the Qunar platform.
Qunar’s Mobile Revenue up 445% YoY in Q3 2014
Qunar’s total revenues for Q3 2014 more than doubled YoY to US$81.6 million and its mobile revenues was US$33 million an increase of 445.1% YoY.
Ctrip Mobile App Downloads Reached 350M in Q3 2014
For the third quarter of 2014, Ctrip reported total revenues of RMB2.3 billion (US$368 million), representing a 38% increase from the same period in 2013. Total revenues for the third quarter of 2014 increased by 24% from the previous quarter.
eLong Revenue Doubled, 100M Mobile App Downloads in Q3 2014
eLong revenue by product for Q3 2014 was 323.5 million yuan, an increase of 100% QoQ and 2% YoY according to its unaudited financial results. Hotel room nights stayed in the third quarter increased 22% to 9.4 million room nights compared to 7.7 million in the prior year period. Hotel commission revenue for the third quarter […]
Guest Satisfaction Research of China Hotels
With the rapid development of mobile Internet, there are various ways for China hotel guests to make comments on their experience. In 2013, hotel guests’ comments on Ctrip mobile app accounted for one fourth of total comments on Ctrip according to a research from Ctrip. In the future, mobile app would be an important channel for […]
China Top 20 Budget Hotels in August 2014
China has become an important tourism destination in Asia and the fifth-largest tourism country in the world. China Tourism Academy estimates total revenue generated from China’s travel industry is going to reach RMB 3.3 trillion (USD 530 billion) this year with 3.76 billion person trips.