Articles tagged “qunar”

Online Travel

A Major Search Engine Is Shaking Up Online Travel, But It’s In China

These are very early days for online travel in China, where there is keen competition and shifting dynamics. The country's leading general search engine, Baidu, is the majority shareholder in Qunar, which is starting to give Ctrip a run for its money.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Airlines

Blackstone Dominated the Top Travel IPOs of 2013

Blackstone will be hard-pressed to repeat its impressive travel-IPO performance in 2014, although La Quinta is on tap. Hotels and attractions, and not tech, were the sexiest things going in 2013.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Online Travel

Top 25 Online Booking Sites in Travel for October 2013

Skift | 10 years ago

Online Travel

China’s version of Kayak is looking to New York for its IPO

People scoffed at travel metasearch for years, denigrating its viability as a business model. But as travel inspiration and social travel sites have come and gone, travel metasearch has kept on expanding, as Qunar's plans highlight.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Travel Booking

Qunar — the Kayak of China — is having a very good year

With Baidu's might behind it after it took a stake, Qunar has carved out a rather large budget-yet-trusted niche for itself despite fierce competition from national heavyweight Ctrip.

Mark Lee, Bloomberg | 12 years ago