China Tourism and Recreation Website Report, 2006
In 2006, China's Tourism industry keeps a rapid development, no matter in inbound travel, domestic travel or outbound travel. Taking inbound travel for example, in Jan-Sep 2006, the number of inbound tourists reached 104 million, up by 3.4% over the same period of 2005; the number of inbound tourists stating overnight amounted to 41.42 million, up by 5.97% over the same period of 2005. The foreign exchange revenue from tourism also achieved to USD 26.12 billion, up by 6.32% over the same period of last year.
However, some problems exist in China's tourism industry, for instance, the concept is outdated, management lags behind, scale is small, risk-resisting ability is not so strong and notable brands are in short. In recent years, online reservation and online booking gradually become popular in China. Compared to traditional modes, online tourism is so convenient that the consumers have broader choices.
Although tourism website has a short history, it has attracted more and more network companies and tourism companies. And now the traditional tourism companies, airline companies and network companies have shared the tourism market together. China's online tourism market has huge potentials. Its scale was RMB 1.25 billion in 2005, accounting for 0.24% of China's tourism market scale. It reached RMB 1.91 billion in 2006 and is expected to exceed RMB 13 billion by 2010, and then sharing over 1% of the tourism market.
China's tourism websites make profits by advertisement revenue and commission for transaction. But now only few tourism websites create income from advertisement. Commission, as the major income of online tourism transaction, depends on tourist flow. Besides, online reservation, tourism organizing and souvenirs also generate few incomes. .
As for tourism websites, the challenges are mainly from that they are unable to find a way for entry because of not understanding the tourism industry comprehensively and profoundly while making plans. A large number of China's tourism websites are similar, which leads to lower economic benefits.
What's more, some comprehensive websites are not so professional that it can't provide with diversified and authoritative tourism information with valuable reference. Some information websites only serve as professional portal and lack a powerful support of professional industrial resources. Their visiting volume is unsatisfactory. According to survey, netizen prefer to choose those websites who have higher awareness, bulk information, clear channels and easy for search.
In the face of huge potentials of the tourism market, tourism and recreation websites should take active measures such as changing marketing concept, improving service quality, strengthening the security of transactions. As there are tremendous tourism websites, the M & A will be the trend.
However, some problems exist in China's tourism industry, for instance, the concept is outdated, management lags behind, scale is small, risk-resisting ability is not so strong and notable brands are in short. In recent years, online reservation and online booking gradually become popular in China. Compared to traditional modes, online tourism is so convenient that the consumers have broader choices.
Although tourism website has a short history, it has attracted more and more network companies and tourism companies. And now the traditional tourism companies, airline companies and network companies have shared the tourism market together. China's online tourism market has huge potentials. Its scale was RMB 1.25 billion in 2005, accounting for 0.24% of China's tourism market scale. It reached RMB 1.91 billion in 2006 and is expected to exceed RMB 13 billion by 2010, and then sharing over 1% of the tourism market.
China's tourism websites make profits by advertisement revenue and commission for transaction. But now only few tourism websites create income from advertisement. Commission, as the major income of online tourism transaction, depends on tourist flow. Besides, online reservation, tourism organizing and souvenirs also generate few incomes. .
As for tourism websites, the challenges are mainly from that they are unable to find a way for entry because of not understanding the tourism industry comprehensively and profoundly while making plans. A large number of China's tourism websites are similar, which leads to lower economic benefits.
What's more, some comprehensive websites are not so professional that it can't provide with diversified and authoritative tourism information with valuable reference. Some information websites only serve as professional portal and lack a powerful support of professional industrial resources. Their visiting volume is unsatisfactory. According to survey, netizen prefer to choose those websites who have higher awareness, bulk information, clear channels and easy for search.
In the face of huge potentials of the tourism market, tourism and recreation websites should take active measures such as changing marketing concept, improving service quality, strengthening the security of transactions. As there are tremendous tourism websites, the M & A will be the trend.
1 Overview of China's tourism and recreation industry in 2006
1.1Overall development analysis of China's tourism and recreation industry in 2006
1.1.1Tourism consumption
1.1.2 Ticket price
1.1.3 Business Climate Index
1.1.4 Total investment strategy
1.1.5 Invested scenic spots
1.2 Analysis of China's tourism and recreation industry market in 2006
1.2.1 China becomes tourism giant
1.2.2 Analysis of China's tourism market
1.3 Analysis of listed companies in tourism and recreation industry
1.3.1 Investment value analysis of the tourism industry and listed companies in 2006
1.3.2 Analysis of scenic spots listed companies
1.3.3 Analysis of major tourism companies
1.3.4 Analysis of the major hotels
1.4 Development trends of China's tourism and recreation industry
1.4.1 China's tourism market trend in 2007
1.4.2 Development trends of China's tourism industry
1.4.3 Development trends of China's hotel industry
2 Influences of RMB appreciation on the tourism and recreation industry
2.1 More influence on outbound travel than inbound travel
2.1.1 Influence degree on outbound travel
2.1.2 Influence degree on inbound travel
2.2 Influences on scenic spots, hotels and travel agencies
3 Problems and strategies in China's tourism and recreation websites
3.1 Problems of China's tourism websites
3.1.1 General environment problems
3.1.2 Major problems
3.1.3 Gap compared with American counterparts
3.2 Strategies of China's tourism websites
3.2.1 Concept needs to be changed
3.2.2 Service needs to be improved
3.2.3 Security needs to be strengthened
4 Development of international tourism and recreation websites
4.1 Global individual and commercial travel market scale
4.2 Development of tourism and recreation websites in US
4.2.1 Operation mode
4.2.2 Online order
4.2.3 Scale and trend of online tourism market in US
4.2.4 Challenges faced by three largest tourism websites in US
4.3 Development of tourism and recreation websites in other countries
4.3.1Canadian netizens concern online tourism price information most
4.3.2 Tourism websites for females in Germany
4.4 Revelations from oversea tourism websites
5 Development of China's tourism and recreation websites in 2006
5.1 Overall analysis
5.1.1 Background and development status of tourism websites
5.1.2 Functions and characteristics of tourism websites
5.1.3 Analysis of tourism website types
5.1.4 Development directions of tourism websites
5.1.5 Construction of tourism and recreation websites
5.2 Content, service and profit of China's tourism and recreation websites
5.2.1 Content
5.2.2 Service objects
5.2.3 Profitability analysis
5.2.4 Two profit modes of tourism websites
5.2.5 Profit mode of travel agencies through tourism websites
5.3 Business mode and network security of tourism and recreation websites
5.4 Alliance and development of China's tourism websites
5.4.1 Influences of international internet development and the variation of travel modes on the tourism industry
5.4.2 Tourism development trend and alliance among tourism websites
5.5 Market of China's tourism and recreation website
5.5.1 Overview of China's tourism website market
5.5.2 Scale of China's online travel reservation market
6 China's main tourism and recreation websites and competitiveness analysis
6.1 Comprehensive evaluation of main tourism and recreation websites
6.1.1 Overall appraisement of tourism and recreation websites
6.1.2 Appraisement of specific tourism websites
6.2 C-trip
6.2.1 Brief introduction
6.2.2 Financial results in 2006
6.2.3 C-trip to set up the first tourism calling center of Asia
6.2.4 Release ranking of most popular cities during national day holiday in 2006
6.3 E-long
6.3.1 Brief introduction
6.3.2 Financial results in 2006
6.3.3 User analysis of e-long
6.3.4 Survey analysis of the development of commercial travel cities
6.4 Aoyou
6.4.1 Brief introduction
6.4.2 Aoyou challenges c-trip and e-long
6.5 Development of other tourism and recreation websites
6.6 Comparison of Chinese and foreign professional tourism websites
6.6.1 Research methods and technical routes
6.6.2 Comparison of Chinese and foreign professional tourism websites
6.6.3 Conclusion
7. Classification analysis of tourism and recreation websites by function
7.1 Tourism reservation websites analysis
7.1.1 Development overview in 2006
7.1.2 Industry ascription analysis of China's tourism reservation websites
7.1.3 Profit mode of China's mainstream tourism reservation websites
7.1.4 Growth and development directions
7.2 Analysis of search engine websites
7.2.1 Analysis of tourism search engine
7.2.2 Go10000
7.2.3 Tourism search engine's influences on online tourism
7.2.4 Tourism search engine's threat to traditional online tourism websites
7.2.5 Purchase proportion realized by search engine
7.3 Analysis of E-commerce website
7.3.1 Analysis of "China tourism e-commerce website"
7.3.2 Status quo and prospect of China's e-Tourism
7.3.3 Comparison of e-Tourism in China and US
7.4 The fourth category represented by 51766.com
8 Analysis of regional tourism and recreation websites
8.1 Beijing
8.1.1 Investigation of Beijing online tourism consumers
8.1.2 Overview of Beijing tourism websites
8.2 Shanghai
8.2.1 Travel habit survey of Shanghai netizens
8.2.2 Overview of Shanghai tourism websites
8.3 Guangdong
8.3.1 Guangdong constructs a large tourism network in Pan-Pearl River Delta
8.3.2 Guangdong tourism industry enters network era
8.3.3 Overview of Guangdong tourism websites
8.4 Development analysis of tourism and recreation website in Hunan
8.4.1 Brief introduction of gotohn.com
8.4.2 Construction of Hunan tourism websites
8.4.3 Overview of Zhangjiajie touroism website
8.5 Other cities
8.5.1 Analysis of xaonly.com
8.5.2 E-Tourism is getting popular in Inner Mongolia
8.5.3 Analysis of e-travel websites in Dalian
8.5.4 Taiyuan established the first online tourism bureau in Shanxi
8.5.5 Guilin tourism websites
8.5.6 Huangshan tourism websites
9 Online marketing analysis of China's tourism industry
9.1 Online marketing analysis of the tourism industry
9.1.1 Current status
9.1.2 Development orientation
9.1.3 Prospect of the third generation online tourism marketing
9.1.4 Function of websites in online tourism marketing
9.2 Development situation and solutions of online tourism marketing
9.2.1 Development status
9.2.2 Development strategies
Tables/Figures
Trend and forecast of e-Tourism market scale in US
Trend and forecast of online commercial tourism market scale in US
Online travel information concerned by Canadian netizens
China's e-Tourism market scale, 2001-2006
User composition of C-trip
Net operating income and growth rate of C-trip, Q1 2004- Q3 2006
Proportion of C-trip's main operating revenue in Q3 2006
Total income and growth rate of E-long, Q3 2004- Q3 2006
Proportion of E-long's main operating revenue in Q3 2006
Tourism information source of investigated netizens
Online inquiry of tourism information
Online reservation of tourism services
Trend of netizens visit e-Tourism websites
Proportion of investigated netizens visit e-Tourism websites
Intent of online reservation by netizens
Proportion of affecting factors for choosing tourism websites
Distribution cooperation of online tourism service providers and portal websites
Comparison of Eztravel.com and Liontravel.com
List of 40 professional Chinese and foreign Tourism websites
Proportion of online reservation for products and services between Chinese and foreign professional tourism websites
Background of domestic major tourism reservation websites and investors
Profit mode of domestic typical tourism reservation websites, 2006
Professional e-Tourism websites in China
Listed tourism companies and their website investment
List of surveyed websites
Ranking of Beijing tourism websites
Choosing of travel mode of Shanghai netizens
Desire for self-guided tourism of Shanghai netizens
Causes for self-guided tourism of Shanghai netizens
1.1Overall development analysis of China's tourism and recreation industry in 2006
1.1.1Tourism consumption
1.1.2 Ticket price
1.1.3 Business Climate Index
1.1.4 Total investment strategy
1.1.5 Invested scenic spots
1.2 Analysis of China's tourism and recreation industry market in 2006
1.2.1 China becomes tourism giant
1.2.2 Analysis of China's tourism market
1.3 Analysis of listed companies in tourism and recreation industry
1.3.1 Investment value analysis of the tourism industry and listed companies in 2006
1.3.2 Analysis of scenic spots listed companies
1.3.3 Analysis of major tourism companies
1.3.4 Analysis of the major hotels
1.4 Development trends of China's tourism and recreation industry
1.4.1 China's tourism market trend in 2007
1.4.2 Development trends of China's tourism industry
1.4.3 Development trends of China's hotel industry
2 Influences of RMB appreciation on the tourism and recreation industry
2.1 More influence on outbound travel than inbound travel
2.1.1 Influence degree on outbound travel
2.1.2 Influence degree on inbound travel
2.2 Influences on scenic spots, hotels and travel agencies
3 Problems and strategies in China's tourism and recreation websites
3.1 Problems of China's tourism websites
3.1.1 General environment problems
3.1.2 Major problems
3.1.3 Gap compared with American counterparts
3.2 Strategies of China's tourism websites
3.2.1 Concept needs to be changed
3.2.2 Service needs to be improved
3.2.3 Security needs to be strengthened
4 Development of international tourism and recreation websites
4.1 Global individual and commercial travel market scale
4.2 Development of tourism and recreation websites in US
4.2.1 Operation mode
4.2.2 Online order
4.2.3 Scale and trend of online tourism market in US
4.2.4 Challenges faced by three largest tourism websites in US
4.3 Development of tourism and recreation websites in other countries
4.3.1Canadian netizens concern online tourism price information most
4.3.2 Tourism websites for females in Germany
4.4 Revelations from oversea tourism websites
5 Development of China's tourism and recreation websites in 2006
5.1 Overall analysis
5.1.1 Background and development status of tourism websites
5.1.2 Functions and characteristics of tourism websites
5.1.3 Analysis of tourism website types
5.1.4 Development directions of tourism websites
5.1.5 Construction of tourism and recreation websites
5.2 Content, service and profit of China's tourism and recreation websites
5.2.1 Content
5.2.2 Service objects
5.2.3 Profitability analysis
5.2.4 Two profit modes of tourism websites
5.2.5 Profit mode of travel agencies through tourism websites
5.3 Business mode and network security of tourism and recreation websites
5.4 Alliance and development of China's tourism websites
5.4.1 Influences of international internet development and the variation of travel modes on the tourism industry
5.4.2 Tourism development trend and alliance among tourism websites
5.5 Market of China's tourism and recreation website
5.5.1 Overview of China's tourism website market
5.5.2 Scale of China's online travel reservation market
6 China's main tourism and recreation websites and competitiveness analysis
6.1 Comprehensive evaluation of main tourism and recreation websites
6.1.1 Overall appraisement of tourism and recreation websites
6.1.2 Appraisement of specific tourism websites
6.2 C-trip
6.2.1 Brief introduction
6.2.2 Financial results in 2006
6.2.3 C-trip to set up the first tourism calling center of Asia
6.2.4 Release ranking of most popular cities during national day holiday in 2006
6.3 E-long
6.3.1 Brief introduction
6.3.2 Financial results in 2006
6.3.3 User analysis of e-long
6.3.4 Survey analysis of the development of commercial travel cities
6.4 Aoyou
6.4.1 Brief introduction
6.4.2 Aoyou challenges c-trip and e-long
6.5 Development of other tourism and recreation websites
6.6 Comparison of Chinese and foreign professional tourism websites
6.6.1 Research methods and technical routes
6.6.2 Comparison of Chinese and foreign professional tourism websites
6.6.3 Conclusion
7. Classification analysis of tourism and recreation websites by function
7.1 Tourism reservation websites analysis
7.1.1 Development overview in 2006
7.1.2 Industry ascription analysis of China's tourism reservation websites
7.1.3 Profit mode of China's mainstream tourism reservation websites
7.1.4 Growth and development directions
7.2 Analysis of search engine websites
7.2.1 Analysis of tourism search engine
7.2.2 Go10000
7.2.3 Tourism search engine's influences on online tourism
7.2.4 Tourism search engine's threat to traditional online tourism websites
7.2.5 Purchase proportion realized by search engine
7.3 Analysis of E-commerce website
7.3.1 Analysis of "China tourism e-commerce website"
7.3.2 Status quo and prospect of China's e-Tourism
7.3.3 Comparison of e-Tourism in China and US
7.4 The fourth category represented by 51766.com
8 Analysis of regional tourism and recreation websites
8.1 Beijing
8.1.1 Investigation of Beijing online tourism consumers
8.1.2 Overview of Beijing tourism websites
8.2 Shanghai
8.2.1 Travel habit survey of Shanghai netizens
8.2.2 Overview of Shanghai tourism websites
8.3 Guangdong
8.3.1 Guangdong constructs a large tourism network in Pan-Pearl River Delta
8.3.2 Guangdong tourism industry enters network era
8.3.3 Overview of Guangdong tourism websites
8.4 Development analysis of tourism and recreation website in Hunan
8.4.1 Brief introduction of gotohn.com
8.4.2 Construction of Hunan tourism websites
8.4.3 Overview of Zhangjiajie touroism website
8.5 Other cities
8.5.1 Analysis of xaonly.com
8.5.2 E-Tourism is getting popular in Inner Mongolia
8.5.3 Analysis of e-travel websites in Dalian
8.5.4 Taiyuan established the first online tourism bureau in Shanxi
8.5.5 Guilin tourism websites
8.5.6 Huangshan tourism websites
9 Online marketing analysis of China's tourism industry
9.1 Online marketing analysis of the tourism industry
9.1.1 Current status
9.1.2 Development orientation
9.1.3 Prospect of the third generation online tourism marketing
9.1.4 Function of websites in online tourism marketing
9.2 Development situation and solutions of online tourism marketing
9.2.1 Development status
9.2.2 Development strategies
Tables/Figures
Trend and forecast of e-Tourism market scale in US
Trend and forecast of online commercial tourism market scale in US
Online travel information concerned by Canadian netizens
China's e-Tourism market scale, 2001-2006
User composition of C-trip
Net operating income and growth rate of C-trip, Q1 2004- Q3 2006
Proportion of C-trip's main operating revenue in Q3 2006
Total income and growth rate of E-long, Q3 2004- Q3 2006
Proportion of E-long's main operating revenue in Q3 2006
Tourism information source of investigated netizens
Online inquiry of tourism information
Online reservation of tourism services
Trend of netizens visit e-Tourism websites
Proportion of investigated netizens visit e-Tourism websites
Intent of online reservation by netizens
Proportion of affecting factors for choosing tourism websites
Distribution cooperation of online tourism service providers and portal websites
Comparison of Eztravel.com and Liontravel.com
List of 40 professional Chinese and foreign Tourism websites
Proportion of online reservation for products and services between Chinese and foreign professional tourism websites
Background of domestic major tourism reservation websites and investors
Profit mode of domestic typical tourism reservation websites, 2006
Professional e-Tourism websites in China
Listed tourism companies and their website investment
List of surveyed websites
Ranking of Beijing tourism websites
Choosing of travel mode of Shanghai netizens
Desire for self-guided tourism of Shanghai netizens
Causes for self-guided tourism of Shanghai netizens
