Journey.com Group Drives International Reconnection at ITB Berlin 2023

BERLIN, March 8, 2023 /CNW/ — Journey.com Group shared its imaginative and prescient of ‘Reconnecting the World’ at ITB Berlin, the most important worldwide present for the journey and tourism business.

Journey.com Group is in attendance in pressure on the first in-person ITB Berlin after a two-year hiatus, with representatives from eight Journey.com Group enterprise strains, together with lodging, flights, sights, advertising and marketing and partnerships.

Ray Chen, Senior Vice President and Chief Govt Officer of Lodging Enterprise at Journey.com Group, delivered a keynote speech to an in-person viewers of over 400 people who was livestreamed to viewers around the globe. 

After his keynote speech, Ray Chen mentioned: “There may be quite a lot of purpose for optimism. Our newest monetary outcomes present we’re making stable headway as we enter 2023 and look towards full restoration.

“Journey.com Group has lengthy been making ready for the reopening of China’s borders to allow the return of mass inbound and outbound journey, which can have an enormous financial profit for the worldwide journey and tourism sector.

Launched yesterday, Journey.com Group This autumn monetary outcomes present a robust return to kind. General lodge bookings on the Group’s world platforms outperformed the pre-pandemic degree for 4 consecutive quarters. On a continuing foreign money foundation, total air-ticketing income from Journey.com Group world platforms in This autumn additionally absolutely recovered to the pre-pandemic degree.  

Demand for China’s outbound journey surged in This autumn. Searches for outbound flights departing from mainland China hit a three-year peak following the downgrade of COVID-19 to a Class B infectious illness and China’s reopening in December. Such encouraging knowledge reveals rising client confidence in January and February 2023.

In the meantime, in line with Journey.com Group knowledge, flight bookings for outbound journey from mainland China to Europe in February 2023, elevated by 59%, in comparison with January 2023 and it rose by a powerful 405%, in comparison with 2022.

Ray Chen, commenting on the outlook, mentioned: “Because the business adapts to the maturation of post-pandemic traits and capability lags, we should proceed to work with companions to allow the discharge of pent-up demand.

“We’re excited to be again in Berlin for ITB to reconnect with companions and business fellows to additional share concepts and traits that proceed to form journey.”

As a part of the technique to help the restoration of journey and tourism, Journey.com Group launched a sequence of livestream actions selling regional locations to Chinese language vacationers. The primary session that centered on Thailand, and was joint hosted by the Director of the Thailand Tourism Authority, generated GMV of US$5.7 million and offered over 20,000 room nights by means of a complete of over 10,000 bookings.

Journey.com Group’s robust attendance at this yr’s ITB Berlin follows ITB Asia held in October final yr the place Journey.com Group additionally had a major presence and Boon Sian Chai, Managing Director and Vice President (Worldwide Markets) at Journey.com Group, delivered a keynote.

About Journey.com Group

Journey.com Group is a number one world journey service supplier comprising of Journey.com, Ctrip, Skyscanner, and Qunar. Throughout its platforms, Journey.com Group helps travellers around the globe make knowledgeable and cost-effective bookings for journey services and products and permits companions to attach their choices with customers by means of the aggregation of complete travel-related content material and assets, and a complicated transaction platform consisting of apps, web sites and 24/7 customer support centres. Based in 1999 and listed on NASDAQ in 2003 and HKEX in 2021, Journey.com Group has turn out to be one of many best-known journey teams on the planet, with the mission “to pursue the proper journey for a greater world”. Discover out extra about Journey.com Group right here: group.journey.com

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