免费日韩片_欧美成人精品一区二区男人小说_国产乱码一区二区三区四区_国产精品国产三级国产aⅴ入口_成人看的污污超级黄网站免费_欧美一级在线免费观看_成人午夜免费无码福利片_国产乱人伦偷精品视频色欲_aaa少妇高潮大片免费看_国产精品1234_亚洲精品国产suv一区88_中文字字幕在线中文无码_精品亚洲区_午夜九九九_国产av国片精品jk制服丝袜_色综合亚洲_亚洲成av人片无码bt种子下载_欧美色就色_精品少妇的一区二区三区四区_男人用嘴添女人下身免费视频

Australian travel group opens JV in Beijing
By Xu Dashan (China Daily)
Updated: 2004-08-04 10:13

Flight Centre Limited, the largest travel agency group in Australia, opened a joint venture in Beijing yesterday.

It is the first international joint venture that the Australian company has opened.

The joint venture, Flight Centre Comfort Business Travel Service, was established with China Comfort Travel Co Ltd, the third-largest travel company in China.

The joint venture, with a registered capital of 18.08 million yuan (US$2.2 million), is 50 per cent owned by the two companies respectively.

Howard Stack, director of Flight Centre, said China was a strategic link for his company's corporate and retail businesses worldwide.

"It is a burgeoning market that generates close to US$25 billion revenues a year," he said.

"International business travel spending in China is about US$4.2 billion, almost 20 per cent of the total Asian market, while domestic business travel spending is a massive US$20 billion," he said.

Stack said his company needs to partner with leaders in each vital region in order to create a world-leading brand.

Li Jilie, president of China Comfort, said this was a strategic partnership that would enable his company to provide a complete business travel service for companies in China and deliver an improved service for the existing clients with operations in the country.

"It will also enhance our ability to secure new global corporate travel accounts," he said.

Experts said the establishment of the joint venture suggests that international tourism giants have been showing increased interest in China's tourism market.

Guangdong China Travel Service (GCTS) and TUI China Travel Company Ltd signed a deal for complete co-operation in all aspects of tourism, including inbound, outbound, domestic and business tourism on April 26.

Based in Germany, TUI (Touristik Union International) is the largest tourism company in Europe.

TUI China Travel Company, established last year, is China's first Sino-foreign tourism joint venture controlled by foreign shares.

Besides TUI, other world tourism giants such as American Express, Japan Travel Bureau Group, and the UK-registered Business Travel International have also found, or are looking for co-operation with Chinese travel companies.

Wang Fude of the Academy of Tourism Development at the Beijing International Studies University, said the entry of foreign travel agencies would influence the restructuring of the Chinese tourism industry.

The major problem for Chinese tourism is its irrational structure, Wang said.

Close