Trip.com CEO Says China’s Remote Workforces Are Boosting Leisure Domestic Travel
Photo Credit: Chinese free independent travelers exploring Switzerland. Photo courtesy of Switzerland Tourism. Switzerland Tourism
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It's eye-catching that Jane Sun of Trip.com believes that China's remote and hybrid working arrangements are helping domestic leisure travel to recover. That echoes predictions from Airbnb's CEO Brian Chesky and others about how hybrid working may boost travel for some time to come.
China's domestic leisure travel demand will probably recover in full soon thanks in part to the added flexibility of remote working, Trip.com CEO Jane Sun said this week.
"Working from home has increased productivity for industry," Sun said. The long-term effect of remote working will be to "enable customers to spend more time on leisure travel," Sun predicted.
"Domestic travel has pretty much recovered nicely," Sun said. The comments echoed ones Sun made late last month when she said that national corporate travel booked through her company's services is now ahead of pre-pandemic levels by approximately 20 percent.
The top boss of China's largest online travel agency conglomerate made the comments during an online event late Monday run by the airline-owned ATPCO, formerly known as the Airline Tar
