Steven Schwankert, Skift
Ctrip has been able to spend most of its 15-year history riding a rising travel tide in China while buying out much of the competition to blunt their challenges. For 2019, Ctrip will have to stand up and get moving to recapture momentum and investor attention.
2 years ago
Daniel Meesak, Jing Travel
The U.S. National Tourism & Trade Office's lack of data on inbound tourism is looking increasingly like a politically motivated void the longer it persists even though insiders insist this isn't the case.
2 years ago
Bloomberg
Chinese airlines were given the green light to raise fares, but their lack of permission to hedge fuel has adversely impacted their performance. All of Trump's tariff talk hasn't helped, either.
2 years ago
Julie Johnsson, Bloomberg
With its new tariffs on Chinese-made jetliners, maybe the Trump administration is thinking long-term, calculating that someday Chinese jets will challenge Boeing. But for today, it's silly. China likely will retaliate short-term, and that's not great news for U.S. manufacturers. Chinese airlines buy a lot of Boeing jets.
2 years ago
Julie Johnsson and Thomas Black, Bloomberg
Boeing happens to be phasing out many of the planes that would be subject to the Chinese tariffs so the impact on the U.S. manufacturer could be less than meets the eye.
2 years ago
Bloomberg
Boeing can take solace in the fact that China is going to need a lot of airplanes in coming years and they are not all going to be Airbus aircraft. Still, China's actions have to be very worrying to Boeing.
2 years ago
Jing Travel
This story covers the possible ramifications of a China-U.S. trade war from several angles. We don't immediately know how this will play out, but travel companies would be wise to pay close attention as the story unfolds.
2 years ago
