{"id":35198,"date":"2004-11-30T04:34:20","date_gmt":"2004-11-29T20:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2004\/11\/30\/elong-acquires-80-of-hotel-marketing-service\/"},"modified":"2004-11-30T04:34:20","modified_gmt":"2004-11-29T20:34:20","slug":"elong-acquires-80-of-hotel-marketing-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2004\/11\/30\/35198\/","title":{"rendered":"eLong Acquires 80% Of Hotel Marketing Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"60\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/images\/elong_logo_120x60.gif\" width=\"120\" align=\"right\">eLong has announced its 80% acquisition of Ray Time, a marketing and hospitality planning service provider for China's best hotels.<!--StartFragment --><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ray Time is also the only non-hotel member of CFHC (China Famous Hotel Corporation), an industry organization in China.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Time claims 100000 members who receive free or preferential service at more than 40 five-star hotels across China.<\/p>\n<p>After the acquisition, these Ray Time members will become members of eLong's own members-only travel club. The merger is expected to stimulate eLong's ticket sales prior to the big Spring Festival holidays in February 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eLong has announced its 80% acquisition of Ray Time, a marketing and hospitality planning service provider for China's best hotels.<\/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-35198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35198","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=35198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}