China’s Baidu-backed travel company Qunar has become one of the country’s leading online travel search providers, boasting about 75 million monthly visits.
China travel search portal Qunar speaks about the past, present and future
May 7, 2013 By 1 Comment
Qunar overtakes Ctrip as China’s biggest travel site, booming on mobile sales
February 5, 2013 By 1 Comment
Yesterday, Baidu, China’s largest search engine, trumpeted the astonishing growth of its travel site Qunar, which in the fourth quarter became China’s largest internet retailer of airline tickets — overtaking Ctrip, the dominant OTA.
Skyscanner invades China, inks flight search deal with web giant Baidu
August 23, 2012 By 3 Comments
After setting up operations in Singapore and Russia, UK-based travel search engine Skyscanner has an evenbigger target now: China.
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Briefing: The largest travel IPO of 2012, CTrip’s loss, Qunar’s gain, and other travel tech news
August 20, 2012 By 3 Comments
China’s largest online travel agencies are battling for their share of the domestic travel market, which is growing about 14%-a-year, and more in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion today.
eLong in huge China online shift with echoes of Expedia-Google problem
May 21, 2012 By 2 Comments
eLong, Expedia’s online travel agency subsidiary in China, has carried out a very substantial shift to online hotel bookings in the past year.
China giant Baidu uses Qunar investment to launch hotel search
July 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Chinese search engine Baidu is wasting no time making the most of its $306 million investment in metasearch site Qunar, promising to soon incorporate hotel search.
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Unhappy Fourth of July – Why summer 2011 is a big moment in Chinese online travel
July 4, 2011 By 11 Comments
The investment by Chinese search leader Baidu into local metasearch company Qunar can be proclaimed a data point on China becoming the largest economy in the world.
China search giant Baidu takes travel seriously with $306M punt on Qunar
July 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
While some industry folk in the western hemisphere gasp at levels of money being thrown into the likes of Wimdu and Airbnb, over in China there are even bigger sums in play.
