Recently, Ctrip did an online research by thousands of users and released the first “Report of Tourists’ Satisfaction about Travel Law”.
Marriott hotels may have "teleporters" but augmented reality on your smartphone could be the way of the future.
Making trip plans for 2015 is not too early to start now. So before booking the next travel, you should know the industry trends and hoteliers should make suitable marketing decisions.
The research shows millennials are spending more money on travel. So the travel and hotel industry should focus on them to hold the marketing in the future.
Recently, it is said that alibaba’s Taobao Travel planned to buy into Expedia’s online travel service provider eLong.
Do you really know your business travelers? If given the proper service, they are a lucrative group that is likely to bring repeat business, but their needs are different than leisure travelers.
GBTA Foundation Report Forecasts Global Business Travel Spending to Hit Record High of Nearly $1.2 Trillion in 2014.
The likes and dislikes of Chinese international travelers are in transformation mode as they increasingly travel and discover the world outside their home country. They are traveling more independently, booking online or via mobile apps, and giving big hotel chains a chance.
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The number of reviews on Chinese travel sites increased almost twofold in the last year.
Consumers are using different platforms to access the internet, the mobile channel is constantly gaining ground, not only due to the use of smartphones and tablets as “personal assistants” but also to make travel bookings.
It is predicted that China will also become the biggest domestic travel market by 2017, driven largely by rapidly increasing GDP, rising employment levels and higher consumer spending.
Demand for High Quality Holiday Experience will see Mainland Chinese Travelers Bringing Lucrative Opportunities to the Global Travel Industry
Strategy firm Lima Consulting Group and ObservePoint, a digital marketing auditing company, examined 140 global travel brands to see how they and their “marketing technologies” performed.
Many hotels don’t have the budget to beat OTAs marketing efforts, and quite honestly, this is the most important thing of all. If your hotel is not front and center after a Google search query, it will not be looked at.
The report, written by Oxford Economics and commissioned by Amadeus, also predicts that large emerging markets will be driving this growth.
The growth in China s economy has been unprecedented, propelling the country s business travel market to the second largest market in the world driven by real spending gains from rising business travel demand in both transient and group meetings and events.
Ctrip.com is China s No.1 travel booking website in terms of market share but it gave its users a good scare this weekend. More than 10 million Ctrip users and their personal and financial information were apparently exposed to two security flaws.
One fifth has an app that allows clients to book travel with them, more than one third uses online tools to drive compliance and almost two thirds believe mobile technology can help them keep travellers within policy.
Booming economy – check; Growing middle class – check; High levels of disposable income – check; Big spenders abroad – check. Over the last few years, China has been heralded to an undisputed No. 1 spot as the fastest growing tourism source market in the world.
It is the season of travel, where people buckle up on planes and trains across the world, relishing the relatively recent wide-spread availability of public Wi-Fi.
Many of the specific challenges that the travel industry faces in big data result from its long-term usage of information systems for key processes. One consequence of this is that key data is often fragmented across multiple functions and units.
Business travel spending from China is expected to jump 14% in 2013 and 17% next year, according to the trade group for corporate travel managers.
Futurist Dr Graeme Codrington claims the key word for the travel industry today is "uncertainty ", and that no one knows what is going to happen next.