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On Aug. 1, Ankai Bus Promotioal Conference-Shanghai Station raised its curtain in Shanghai Guofeng Hotel. Leaders from Ankai Bus and over 80 bus operators and tourist transport companies gathered to brainstorm new strategies for the development of road tourist transport in an era of high speed trains.
At the conference, Xie Hongsheng, Deputy General Manager of Ankai Automobile Co., Ltd. Marketing Branch pinpoints the grim situations faced by road tourist transport market, makes an estimate for its future development and comes up with his solutions to meet the challenging market conditions.
According to Mr. Xie, road transport should first make full use of its point-to-point flexibility in those popular routes with inefficient high speed train connections. While maintaining its traditional routes between large and medium cities, emphasis for faster development for road transport should be put on county level.
Second, it should grasp the great opportunity when travel industry is enjoying fast growth and tale full advantage of its differential competitiveness over high speed trains, providing more travel choices for tourists.
Last, road tourist transport industry should further strengthen its management and realize demand-supply lean management.