{"id":39546,"date":"2017-08-08T07:50:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T07:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=39546"},"modified":"2017-08-08T07:50:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T07:50:57","slug":"marriott-pursues-chinese-travelers-alibaba-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/travel\/marriott-pursues-chinese-travelers-alibaba-partnership.html","title":{"rendered":"Marriott pursues Chinese travelers with Alibaba partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Marriott pursues Chinese travelers with Alibaba partnership<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Marriott pursues Chinese travelers with Alibaba partnership:- Marriott International is tapping into the Chinese market in a big way with the establishment of a joint venture with Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The joint venture will enable Marriott to market directly to Alibaba&#8217;s customers, estimated at 500 million monthly active users. A Marriott store will operate on Fliggy, Alibaba&#8217;s travel service platform. Content, promotions and programs will be customized for Chinese travelers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson called the joint venture &#8220;a priority&#8221; with 700 million Chinese outbound trips expected in the next five years. Spending by outbound Chinese travelers in 2016 was $261 billion, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.travelweekly.com\/Travel-News\/Hotel-News\/Marriott-pursues-Chinese-travelers-with-Alibaba-partnership<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/travel\/marriott-pursues-chinese-travelers-alibaba-partnership.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriott pursues Chinese travelers with Alibaba partnership Marriott pursues Chinese travelers with Alibaba partnership:- Marriott International is tapping into the Chinese market in a big way with the establishment of a joint venture with Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. The joint venture will enable Marriott to market directly to Alibaba&#8217;s customers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[39602],"class_list":["post-39546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-marriott-pursues-chinese-travelers-with-alibaba-partnership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}