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Your property is
a landmark here.
In China's feed, it may not exist.

Chinese travellers plan, book and review every trip inside RedNote, Douyin, WeChat and Ctrip. Hotels, attractions and restaurants that live only on Western platforms are not being rejected there. They are never seen. We measure how visible you are, then close the gap.

Now
Visible
US$254B Spent by Chinese outbound travellers in 2025, the largest source market in the world
9% Share of Dubai's 19.6M visitors in 2025 from North East and South East Asia (DET)
5 Platforms where the Chinese trip is decided. None of them is Google or Instagram
0 Times Google, Instagram or TripAdvisor appear in a Chinese traveller's planning

Why now

The guests Dubai is missing are the ones who choose on the feed.

CHINESE VISITORS TO DUBAI (DET)

20191M+ peak
2022177K
2023620K
2024824K +31%
2026?

Dubai closed 2025 with a record 19.6 million visitors and 80.7% hotel occupancy. Chinese arrivals were still below the 2019 peak, and 2026 has reset the market. Whoever is in the feed when confidence returns owns the rebound.

RATE, NOT DISCOUNT

Dubai's hotels ran at 80.7% occupancy across 2025 and held rate. In 2026 the top of the market has been short of long-haul guests who pay full rate. Chinese leisure travellers at this tier choose on content and recommendation, not price, and they spend an estimated US$85 billion a year on accommodation alone.

For a 300-key property, 1,000 incremental Chinese room nights a year is about 0.9 points of occupancy and around AED 1.5m of room revenue at a luxury rate. That is a property-level result, tracked booking by booking.

Start with the audit

The frozen-period plan

You can't switch this on when the war ends.

Visibility is built before the window opens. Chinese New Year falls on 6 February 2027 and premium bookings are made six to ten weeks ahead, so content has to be live by mid-December. Algorithms reward history, not arrival. Meanwhile the UAE's resident Chinese community is deciding where to eat and stay inside these platforms today.

Slow is deliberate. Absent is fatal.

The digital Great Wall

Chinese platforms aren't a variant of the West's. They're a different ecosystem entirely.

Instagram, Google, TripAdvisor and YouTube do not load in mainland China. Chinese travellers discover on Douyin and RedNote, validate on RedNote and WeChat, book on Ctrip and review on Dianping, through creator content, peer notes and platform-native search.

If your presence lives only on Western platforms, you are not underperforming in China. You are invisible in it. The competitor down the beach may not be.

What we do

Four layers. One system.

Visibility compounds when presence, content, conversion and advocacy run together. Run separately, they are noise. We build and operate the system, ongoing, native, and reported against a baseline you can check.

01

Presence and content

Verified official accounts on RedNote, Douyin and WeChat, written natively in Mandarin rather than translated. Creator content produced on site, disclosed and platform-compliant, timed to the four Chinese holiday windows.

02

Conversion

Ctrip and Dianping listing quality, review volume, and a campaign page or dedicated rate so intent becomes a tracked booking, a booked table or a ticket sold in-app.

03

Advocacy and reporting

Guests' own posts and reviews seeded and managed honestly, feeding the next traveller's search. Weekly reporting on reach, saves and tracked bookings, and a quarterly re-audit against your baseline.

Evidence first

We measure before we propose anything.

A number your board can check, a walk-through your team can repeat, and a plan that names which layer to fix first.

Influencer campaigns

The fastest way to raise a profile and move traffic is a creator standing in your property.

Chinese travellers plan from peer content, not advertising. We brief, contract and manage Chinese creators to produce on site, on RedNote and Douyin, timed to the holiday windows when trips are decided. Every collaboration is disclosed and platform-compliant, and every post carries a route to book: a Ctrip campaign page, a dedicated rate, or in-app tickets.

01

Profile

Mid-tier and micro creators matched to your guest profile, producing the notes and short video that put a property on a Chinese traveller's shortlist.

02

Traffic

Campaigns built around Chinese New Year, May Day, summer and Golden Week, with content live six to ten weeks before each, so reach arrives when bookings are made.

03

Tracked

Reach, saves and bookings reported weekly against your audit baseline. Creator budgets agreed up front and reported at cost plus a disclosed margin.

Seen, saved, booked.

Where we operate

Four platforms. Four different jobs.

China's travel ecosystem is not one channel. Each platform does a different job in the journey, and each one is measured in the audit.

RedNote 小红书

High-quality seeding

China's largest premium lifestyle and discovery community. Where affluent travellers research before they decide.

Douyin 抖音

Breakthrough for traffic

China's largest short-video and livestream platform. Built for reach, trends, and commerce conversion.

WeChat 微信

Build deep trust

The private-domain backbone. Membership, direct booking, and long-form brand storytelling live here.

Ctrip 携程

Where the booking happens

China's largest travel booking platform. Ratings, review volume and campaign pages decide whether intent becomes a room night or a ticket.

How we work

Measure, then pilot on one holiday window, then build.

Each step is a decision you make on the numbers. Fees are quoted after the audit, once your baseline and scope are known, and never per platform.

Audit

Free· one week

  • China Visibility Index against two competitors
  • Booking-journey walk-through with screenshots
  • One-page plan: which layer to fix first, and when
  • The findings are yours whatever you decide
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Programme

Ongoing· group or destination

  • Always-on presence across properties
  • Creator calendar built around the four windows
  • Listings, reviews and monthly board-pack reporting
  • Quarterly re-audit against your baseline
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Who it is for

Hotels· attractions · destinations · restaurants

  • Luxury and upper-upscale hotel groups
  • Ticketed attractions and landmarks
  • Tourism authorities and destination brands
  • Restaurant groups serving the Chinese traveller and resident
Tell us about your property

Creator and paid media budgets are agreed up front and reported at cost plus a disclosed handling margin. Every campaign is disclosed and compliant with platform rules, Chinese advertising regulation and UAE advertiser permit requirements.

Chinese New Year 2027 is booked on the feed in December. Find out how visible you are now.

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