{"id":12258,"date":"2009-06-16T05:32:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T21:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/en\/?p=12258"},"modified":"2009-06-16T05:32:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T21:32:05","slug":"swiss-kuoni-acquires-share-in-et-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2009\/06\/16\/12258\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Kuoni Acquires Share In Et-china"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss-based Kuoni Group, one of Europe's largest travel companies , has acquired an equity holding of about 32% in Et-china.com International Holdings Limited.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2000 in Guangzhou, Et-China owns a majority stake in GZL International Travel Services, and is now South China's largest travel call center and online trading platform with more than 1.5 million clients. In August 2007, Et-China has become mainland China's third travel concept stock to list overseas.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition makes Kuoni the biggest single shareholder in Et-China. Early in 2007, Kuoni entered into Guangzhou through its S.K.Y. Travel brand which is headquartered in Hong Kong and became Guangzhou's first wholly foreign-owned travel agency.<\/p>\n<p>\"In acquiring its holding in Et-china, Kuoni is embarking on a key long-term strategic partnership with one of China's most important travel corporations,\" says Peter Rothwell, the CEO of the Kuoni Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss-based Kuoni Group, one of Europe's largest travel companies , has acquired an equity holding of about 32% in Et-china.com International Holdings Limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[13083,13472,12932,15947,16584,12762,6673,16913,16914,13276,13657],"class_list":["post-12258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-acquisition","tag-call-center","tag-e-commerce","tag-et-china","tag-gzl","tag-hong-kong","tag-kuoni","tag-online-trading","tag-sky","tag-switzerland","tag-travel-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}