Chinese online travel agency Ctrip International Ltd will now accept payment for air tickets booked via its website through the PayPal secure payment system.

Published: 04 Aug 2008

Chinese online travel agency Ctrip International Ltd will now accept payment for air tickets booked via its website through the PayPal secure payment system.

Ctrip has placed a link to its travel site on PayPal's Chinese language website.

The company indicated that it hopes to gain a significant advantage not only from being able to attract users who wished to pay for their travel through PayPal but also overseas PayPal users that might be attracted to its own website through the link on the PayPal site.

The city is expected to receive 4.6 million foreign tourists in 2008.