Founded in 1999, Ctrip.com became its largest shareholder in 2015, a leading online travel service provider, committed to creating a professional, value-for-money, intelligent and convenient accommodation booking platform for consumers
Founded in 1999, eLong Travel (elong.com) is a professional mobile online accommodation booking platform in China, which currently covers 750,000 hotels in more than 200 countries around the world, and provides hotel, apartment, inn, air and train ticket booking services to more than 200 million members through the eLong Travel App and eLong.com.
eLong is committed to providing users with a choice of worry-free, assured, comfortable accommodation booking services, by providing a full range of map search, user real reviews, VR video and other product functions, so that users can make faster accommodation reservation decisions on the basis of obtaining more effective information. In eLong, users can enjoy services such as free booking fees, 7*24-hour manual customer service, instant confirmation of orders, and instant accommodation with room guarantee, making the user's booking experience more convenient and smooth. While meeting the booking needs of users, eLong has become an ideal OTA cooperation platform in the industry by providing safe and reliable technical services and high-traffic entrances for accommodation partners through a powerful mobile management system and operation guarantee system.
Currently, eLong's top three shareholders are Ctrip (NASADQ: CTRP), Tencent (HKSE: 0700) and Plateno Group.
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On the afternoon of May 22, 2015, Ctrip.com ("Ctrip") announced a strategic investment of US$400 million in eLong ("eLong"), with a shareholding ratio of 37.6%, becoming the largest shareholder of eLong.
In October 2014, eLong could provide reservation services for more than 370,000 hotels, apartments and inns
In October 2014, eLong Hotel had more than 200,000 orders in a single day, a record high; Among them, the mobile APP mobile terminal orders are 100,000.
In November 2013, eLong was awarded the "2013 Top 100 Best Employers" and the "Top 10 Most Concerned Employers for College Students"
In January 2013, eLong Tencent Weibo was selected as the Most Dynamic Enterprise Brand Award
In January 2013, eLong Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. was selected as the third batch of "Ten Hundred Thousand Project" enterprises in Zhongguancun, Beijing
In December 2012, eLong's "Hotel Bargaining" by Global Entrepreneur was selected as "2012 Innovative Product of the Year"
In December 2012, New Leader magazine was named the 11th Top 100 Chinese Enterprises Growing Enterprise.
In November 2012, eLong was awarded the "2012 Top 100 Best Employers"
In October 2012, eLong was awarded the title of "2012 China's Best Employer".
In October 2012, eLong won the "2012 Best Call Center in China" award for the sixth consecutive year
In October 2012, eLong was selected as one of the 2012 China's Top 10 Micro Innovation Companies
In March 2012, eLong's second call center landed in Hefei
In August 2011, eLong won the Best Call Center Award in China for the fifth consecutive time
In May 2011, eLong signed a contract with more than 20,000 domestic hotels to continue to maintain the first hotel coverage
In May 2011, Tencent became the second largest shareholder after investing approximately US$84.4 million in eLong's newly issued shares, accounting for about 16% of eLong's total shares.
In April 2011, the Android client was launched
In March 2011, the iPhone client was launched
In May 2010, eLong launched eLong.com to provide mobile booking services
In May 2008, eLong launched its online hotel strategy, transforming from call center booking to Internet booking
In January 2008, eLong fully implemented the 24×7 service, becoming the first online travel service company in China to provide 24-hour service
In January 2005, Air China's first BSP e-ticket was launched on eLong
In October 2004, eLong was listed on the NASDAQ in the United States
In May 2001, eLong transformed and focused on the online travel booking service industry
In April 2000, eLong acquired Patrick Touche Tohmatsu and its e-commerce website to enter the tourism service industry
In May 1999, eLong was established in Delaware, USA, positioning itself as an urban life information website
