Booking CEO Gillian Tans Gets a Ctrip Board Seat
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Online travel's two most influential female executives, Ctrip's Jane Jie Sun and Booking.com's Gillian Tans, will now deliberate around the table together at Ctrip board meetings. Ctrip felt the need to announce that the two companies are strengthening their ties after Booking's 2017 investment in Ctrip rival and IPO-bound Meituan-Dianping.
In the highly competitive online travel market, where partners routinely battle for customers, Ctrip announced that Booking.com CEO Gillian Tans will take an observer seat on the Chinese company's board.
The announcement pairs the two highest-profile and most-influential female executives, Ctrip CEO Jane Jie Sun and Tans, in online travel. In terms of market cap, Booking Holdings ($102.2 billion) and Ctrip ($26.7 billion) are the two largest companies in online travel.
Actually, Tans and Sun are arguably among the most influential executives — male or female — in online travel.
Tans has been CEO of Booking.com, which generates the majority of the parent company Booking Holdi
