Speakers Infomation - China Travel Innovation Summit

StartUp Challenge

Startup Challenge is the most exciting part of the Summit. 6-8 selected entrepreneurs from the startup companies who are less than 12 months in existence or companies leaving stealth mode will have the chance to demonstrate their innovative solutions or products that will significantly impact travel planning, purchasing and trending.【More】

Panel of Judge

William Bao Bean
Partner
Softbank China & India Holdings

Allen Zhu
Partner
GSR Ventures

Erhai Liu
Managing Director
Legend Capital

Kevin Jin
Vice President
ChinaVenture

2008 Event

2008 China Travel Distination&Technology Summit

China Travel Distribution Summit hosted by TravelDaily is now regarded as the most prestigious event for China’s travel industry. This event is set to be the impeccable opportunity to develop your China entry strategy. 350 senior travel executives from Ctrip, Elong, Mangocity, Expedia, Google, PayPal, Rakuten【More】

Sponsorship

Sponsoring or exhibiting at this event will give you the vital opportunity of greater face to face interaction and time to promote your product or services to the people who control the distribution of travel in China.

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Organizer

Online payment service provider

Sponsor

Official Hotel

Media Partner

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Name: Hai Wu
Job: CEO & Founder
Company: Orange Hotel Group

Hai Wu
Orange Hotel Group
CEO & Founder

Wu Hai is founder and CEO of Orange Hotel Group. Headquartered in Beijing, Orange Hotel Group currently operates 16 hotels in Beijing, Tianjin, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Nanjing.

In 2001 Wu Hai founded Fortunetrip, serving as Chairman & CEO through its acquisition by Sina in March 2004. Wu Hai continued to serve as CEO of FortuneTrip within Sina until the acquisition of FortuneTrip by eLong (NASDAQ:LONG), the second largest online travel company in China in May 2005, after which he served as a VP, Sales within eLong through 2006. eLong is controlled by Expedia, the largest online travel company in the world.

From 2000 to 2001, Wu Hai served as SVP, Sales & Marketing with Ctrip.com. Ctrip.com is the largest online travel company in China (NASDAQ:CTRP). In this role Wu Hai was responsible for sales, marketing, business development and QA. Wu Hai helped Ctrip transition from being a pure online player to having a broader model that spanned online and offline channels, a critical decision that allowed the company to survive the dot com collapse in 2000.

From 1997 to 2000, Wu Hai co-founded SmartTravel, serving as CEO through its acquisition by BizExpress in December 1999.

Wu Hai holds a bachelor degree from Central University (Beijing) in Finance and Economics. Wu Hai is currently a student in INSEAD’s EMBA program.