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.
China Online Traveling UGC Users to Exceed 360M in 2015
Different from UGC (use generated content) market in foreign countries, China online travel UGC market is directly in the “free” stage, skipping the “paid” phase, which indicates that users can obtain and share travel guide and note freely. According to iResearch, online traveling UGC users will exceed 360 million in 2015 in China.
Qunar Launched Sub-brand “Qua”, Marching into International Market
On 12 Dec 2014, Qunar launched its overseas sub-brand: Qua; and this English website domain is qua.com which provides international air-tickets booking service for English users.
Top Travel Guide Mobile Apps in China in Sep 2014
The travel guide app helps travelers make their travel plan in destinations. The top 3 travel guide mobile apps in China were Tuniu travel guide, Mafengwo, and Qyer guide in September 2014.
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.
China Top 6 Online Travel Mobile Apps
Qunar’s mobile app exceeded 8 million MAUs in August 2014 in China according to EnfoDesk, remaining the most popular mobile online travel app, followed by that of Ctrip, LY, eLong, Daodao and Taobao Trip.
China’s Top 4 Online Travel Companies Compared
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 Revenue More Than Doubled in Q2 2014; Mobile Revenue Up 511.8%
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 highest revenue growth rate in ten quarters.
Qunar App: Top Travel Booking App with Over 100M Downloads
On Android platforms alone, Qunar Travel apps had reached 105.716 million times by this May being the first travel app exceeding 100 million downloads according to Jinlv Consulting, a research and consultancy firm for travel industry. Qunar mobile client ranked the best travel booking app by total number of monthly active users (5.077 million), according […]
China OTA Elong Cooperates With 17u
Early in the morning on April 10, 2014, Elong’s staff received an email from CEO announcing the strategic cooperation with 17u.
Ctrip’s Merge With Qunar Will Change China OTA Market
On April 10 2014, news from insiders showed that Baidu’s acquisition of Ctrip was going to finish. Once the acquisition is done, Ctrip will be merged with Qunar. Baidu invested USD 306 million in Qunar in June 2011, and became the largest shareholder.
Hey Girl, Let’s Go Travel: Chinese Women’s Travel Willingness Report in 2014
Before March 8 in 2014, the International Women’s Day, Qunar conducted an online survey of female travel enthusiasts. Post-80s accounted for over 56% of respondents. In terms of travel frequency, 41% of respondent chose 1-2 times inbound travel and 1-2 times outbound travel; about 15% said they “quite enjoy traveling”, and would travel for 3-5 […]
Are Foreign OTAs Threatening Chinese OTAs?
The price war of ticket and hotel booking is eroding the profit of OTAs (online travel agents) in China. The growing outbound travel market has become their new battlefield. According to National Business Daily, American hotel booking website Hotels.com announced a new Chinese website name called “Hao Ding Wang” on March 5 in 2014, focusing on […]
Chinese Travelers Mobile App Search Behavior (3 Part Series)
This is the part 3 of a series of posts that gives you insights on China LBS travel market users behaviors. Part 1, Part 2. Travelers who used mobile map apps showed a relatively high demand for POI information. 69.8% of them demanded for detailed shops information in the neighbourhood, 53.5% asked for shops coupons […]
China Online Travel Market Reached 58.56b Yuan in Q3 2013
According to iResearch, China online travel market reached 58.56 billion yuan (USD 9.54 billion) in Q3 2013, 17.1% more than that of 2012. China OTA total revenue reached 3.01 billion yuan (USD 490.33 million), with a YoY increase of 12.9%.