[Long read] China’s travel mega-portals branch into finance, retail and… wedding photography?
Kendra Schaefer
China’s tourism giants have extended their offerings beyond bookings and reservations, moving into retail, financial, telecom and niche-market services.
Industry: Travel
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China’s duty-free shopping mania is still heating up
Trivium UB
Alibaba’s new duty free e-commerce portal, “Fliggy Buy”, allows Chinese travelers to start shopping before they hit the airport.
Users are diversifying on China’s home sharing apps
Market research agencies get very interested in big groups of big spenders. And no one’s tossing cash around the planet quite as exuberantly as travelers from mainland China (HospitalityNet): “The…
Fliggy announces more benefits for travelers with high social credit scores
Users with high scores already have access to a series of benefits, including deposit-free short-term vacation rentals, try-before-you-buy options for online clothing purchases, and preferential treatment on second-hand retail apps.
Travel trickles down: China’s travel boom hits small-city residents and middle agers
The data The post-Chinese New Years stats are in: according to Alipay’s official Spring Festival holiday numbers, the app saw the sharpest increase in international mobile payments among third- and…