What does it mean to merge the business sectors of Tongcheng Airlines and travel agencies?

The world is so big and I want to see it. After this sentence became popular, travel seems to have become a necessary way of life in people's lives. Originally, during the Spring Festival every year, for example, the market was a bustling scene. But this year’s Spring Festival is different because we encountered a black swan event, which is the new coronavirus. Because the new coronavirus is a contagious disease, even though it has entered summer, people still dare not take off their masks easily and go out. The impact of not being able to go out is really a critical blow to the tourism industry. After all, the tourism industry will only develop if everyone goes out to play. Therefore, the tourism industry is facing a new reshuffle.

Tongcheng Travel can be said to be a relatively famous OTA platform. As a listed company, Tongcheng’s every move can be said to be a benchmark in the tourism industry. In the latest Tongcheng plan, Tongcheng Travel will merge its fulfillment business and aviation business. Everyone began to speculate whether this means that Tongcheng will have a big change. In fact, you don’t need to be too nervous. Even without the impact of the new coronavirus epidemic, the merger of aviation and travel agencies is still a trend.

It can be said that the impact of this epidemic on the aviation industry has also been great. Not only domestic airlines are facing huge pressure, some foreign airlines are even unable to survive and are facing bankruptcy. Moreover, the current global control situation is not clear enough, so it is unknown when the aviation industry will recover next. Therefore, the aviation sector can no longer become an independent department as before, and this merger is inevitable.

As for why it is a travel agency business, it is mainly because the business development of offline travel agencies is indeed not as convenient as offline development. Therefore, the merger of the travel agency and the aviation department is also to save the company's management costs. I don’t think you need to worry too much. The merger of the two departments will not affect people’s travel.