LOS ANGELES, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Hylink Digital (Hylink), a 30-year award-winning full-service global agency, was announced as the official strategic partner of Trip.com and Ctrip for the Americas (North and South America). This marks the first of its kind between an advertising agency and an international online travel agency. As tourism returns, destination [...]
SINGAPORE, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Trip.com Group CMO Bo Sun has been named one of the top 50 most influential and purposeful marketers in Asia-Pacific, by industry leading publication, Campaign. Sun is recognized as the only finalist from OTA, among the marketing elites from different industries, such as Coca-Cola, Alibaba and Google. Sun joined [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) said Tuesday it has partnered with Ctrip, China’s leading online travel agency, to promote and sell tourism products in South Korea. KTO, South Korea’s state-run tourism agency, said it will co-host the “Super Boss Live Show,” a live commerce event, on Wednesday with Ctrip, [...]
WUZHEN, China, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — James Liang, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Ctrip Group, today attended the 6th World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, where he stressed the importance of maintaining a young, skilled and entrepreneurial talent pool into the future. For China, he says, the future of innovative capacity depends largely on the [...]
SINGAPORE, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Today, representatives from the Ctrip and Trip.com brands participated in the 12th ITB Asia convention on behalf of Ctrip Group, the largest online travel business in Asia. Trip.com General Manager of Destination Marketing Edison Chen and Ctrip Area General Manager Ru Yi both spoke at the convention, which the [...]
SHANGHAI, China, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Ctrip Group, Asia’s largest online travel agency, today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with JR Kyushu Railway Company (below: JR Kyushu), in a partnership that promises to drive Chinese and foreign tourism to the Kyushu region. For Ctrip, the co-operation marks the company’s second with JR Railways, [...]
MANILA, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Ctrip Co-founder and Executive Chairman James Liang today met with Philippines Secretary of Tourism Bernadette Romulo-Puyat. The pair discussed areas for collaboration ranging from destination marketing to strategies for improving customer service and safety for travelers to the Philippines and the wider South-East Asia region. The Philippines is an [...]
TOKYO, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Ctrip Group, Asia’s largest online travel agency, signed a strategic partnership agreement with Okura Nikko Hotel Management to promote Japan and the hotel group by launching an exclusive Okura Nikko flagship store. Okura Nikko Hotel Management will be the first hotel group in Japan to sign a partnership agreement [...]
SHANGHAI, China, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — On 4 June, the Ctrip.com International Ltd. co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Board James Liang was invited to meet with the Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović in the capital Zagreb. Their discussion touched on the achievements of both countries in the tourism industry, policy reforms and cultural exchange, [...]
SEOUL/BEIJING, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Ctrip, a leading travel agency in China, has deleted tour programs to South Korea, its website showed Thursday, in what could be a sign of a lingering row between the two neighbors over a U.S. missile defense system. The deletion came just hours after the company restarted online marketing [...]