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Expedia bets China will log on for take-off

By Andrew Yeh in Beijing

Published: May 18 2006 03:00 | Last updated: May 18 2006 03:00

The battle to capture a share of the world's newest outbound tourist market, mainland China, is increasingly shifting to a new frontier - online.

In the latest move, Expedia, the world's largest online travel company, announced last week it planned to upgrade the library of international hotel information on eLong, its52 per cent-owned Chinese website.

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