
Alibaba’s Fliggy ropes in 15,000 motels
Alibaba Group Holding’s on-line journey company Fliggy has established an alliance with 15,000 lodging service suppliers to assist China’s unbiased motels discover extra shoppers. The alliance, which began signing up motels totally free in September, now covers 600,000 rooms in 300 Chinese language cities.
“The alliance seeks to generate site visitors to motels and supply technical help and clever {hardware} sooner or later,” mentioned Fan Chi, vice chairman of the Alibaba Group.
China has about 1 million unbiased motels, accounting for greater than 85% of the nation’s whole, based on knowledge from Fliggy. Nevertheless, these lodging suppliers normally have lower than 80 rooms and lack robust branding and consumer retention.