{"id":33325,"date":"2006-04-15T01:46:55","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T17:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2006\/04\/15\/beijing-travel-agencies-start-outbound-payment-service\/"},"modified":"2006-04-15T01:46:55","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T17:46:55","slug":"beijing-travel-agencies-start-outbound-payment-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2006\/04\/15\/33325\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Travel Agencies Start Outbound Payment Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The high cost of outbound travel has long been a barrier for China's potential outbound tourists. However, now travel agencies and banks are launching a scheduled payment service to help fund those trips.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>UTS Travelution has signed a plan in cooperation with China's Bank of Communication. Under the agreement, all the cardholders of the Pacific Credit Card who register with UTS travel groups can choose to pay their trip in 6-month schedules, 9-month schedules or 12-month schedules if they pay more than 1500rmb with the card at one time.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time that a China travel agency has launched a budget plan for outbound trip.<\/p>\n<p>China's domestic tourist number and outbound tourist number reached 1.12 billion and 28.853 million, respectively, last year.<\/p>\n<p>The World Travel Organization (WTO) forecasts that by 2020, China will become the biggest travel inbound and outbound travel country in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The high cost of outbound travel has long been a barrier for China's potential outbound tourists. However, now travel agencies and banks are launching a scheduled payment service to help fund those trips.<\/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-33325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33325","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=33325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}