Top 10 most-searched hotel brands by Chinese travelers
Skift Take
Western hotels that were the first to enter China in the mid-1980's are reaping the greatest benefits as seen by the Sheraton's and other Western brands' popularity in online searches.
Which hotel brands excite online Chinese travel shoppers the most?
Sheraton, followed by Hilton and Shangri-La, according to a new study of most-searched hotel brands from people on mainland China highlighted by CNNgo.com.
The report - released by Digital Luxury Group, a Geneva-based luxury market research firm - was based on an analysis of 170 million Internet searches between January and March, CNN reports.
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