{"id":33290,"date":"2006-04-05T00:33:28","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T16:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2006\/04\/05\/dangdangcom-enters-chinese-online-travel-market\/"},"modified":"2006-04-05T00:33:28","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T16:33:28","slug":"dangdangcom-enters-chinese-online-travel-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2006\/04\/05\/33290\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangdang.com Enters Chinese Online Travel Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese e-commerce website Dangdang.com says it will soon launch an online flight ticket service that plans to sell 800,000 flight tickets in a year.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Online Chinese travel rivals Ctrip.com sold 3.7 million flight tickets in 2005, and the amount for eLong.com surpassed 600,000.<\/p>\n<p>Selling 800,000 tickets is a challenge but Dangdang.com already has 15.6 million customers, and 60% of those are professionals who are living in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. This is a key demographic that is disposed to purchasing air tickets, rather than train or bus tickets.<\/p>\n<p>There is no word yet on a specific date for the launch of the new Internet travel service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese e-commerce website Dangdang.com says it will soon launch an online flight ticket service that plans to sell 800,000 flight tickets in a year.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-33290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33290","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=33290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}