Trip.com Group CEO Tells Davos Leaders Global Travel for China Will Be Back by Third Quarter
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China is seeing record surge in searches, but for those searches to convert to bookings, it needs airlines, airports and hotels to quickly ramp up capacity.
Online travel agency Trip.com Group hopes that cross-border travel capacity for China will be back to normal by the third quarter of this year.
Since the announcement of the removal of border entry restrictions in China on December 26, Trip.com Group has noted a huge increase in search and volume of travel bookings.
On December 27, bookings for outbound flights from Singapore to mainland China jumped by 310 percent in just a day, according to Trip.com Group’s Chinese language platform, Ctrip.
From January 1 to January 10, cross-border air ticket searches surged 229 percent year-on-year, whilst the order volume increased by 289 percent year-on
