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> From about 2005-2009 I founded a hotel reservation platform in direct competition to CTrip and ELong So it's hotels only? No flights, cars etc?

• contingencies 10y ago
  Yep. Flights in China are routed through a single government clearing house not multiple commercial systems as per the west. In addition, at that time tickets still required physical delivery to the customer. Therefore, we considered it was too much hassle to go through the government approvals in order to compete with established local providers, a market which remains very fragmented. Car rental is beginning to take off now, but was exceptionally rare at that time.
  • ck425 10y ago
    See comments: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/24/skyscanner-sold-to-chinas-ctrip-in-14bn-deal https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/24/skyscanner-...
    • contingencies 10y ago
      Didn't see anything in there, despite reading two pages. Perhaps you could be more specific?
      • ck425 10y ago
        Apologies, replied to wrong comment. Meant to reply to comment mentioning negative opinions to a Chinese firm buying a Scottish one.