Ctrip: Rapid Growth Along With China Travel

Shaun Rein of the China Market Research Group submits: I first met Neil Shen, co-founder of Ctrip (CTRP), about 2 years ago when we were both speakers at Cyberport Hong Kong’s Venture Capital Forum. I had just flown in from Shanghai to talk about edutainment in China and how investments into the sector made sense from a venture capital standpoint. Neil had not joined the venture capital firm Sequoia yet. He was there to talk about the online travel service company Ctrip he had started in 1999 and his experiences in building the company up.