Online travel company Ctrip.com has recently extended its services and expertise on travel in and to China to the English-speaking leisure and business travelers.

Published: 13 May 2008

Online travel company Ctrip.com has recently extended its services and expertise on travel in and to China to the English-speaking leisure and business travelers.

With more than 19 million registered users, Ctrip processed more than 9 million hotel room nights and 10 million air tickets in 2007.

"However, more and more English-speaking leisure and business travelers are on the site making enhanced English-language services and amenities a necessity to facilitate China travel and booking," stated the company.

These services include access to domestic air ticketing, hotel booking and vacation packages; information and travel tips for major destinations, attractions and hotels and major airlines, online travel community boasting travel logs and user-uploaded pictures; regional expertise on China travel offering personalised travel itineraries.

"Ctrip is well-positioned to provide expanded travel products and a fun, simple travel booking experience to customers here in the United States, who have proven that they are increasingly interested in travel to China," said Min Fan, Chief Executive Officer, Ctrip.com. "Total China tourism receipts totaled more than US $150 billion in 2007 -- a healthy 22.6% YOY growth -- and many of those tourists are coming to China from America and other English-language markets."