Setup in 1954, one of the earliest travel services in inbound tourism and the earliest ever in Shanghai.
On March 20th, 1989, Comrade JIANG Zemin, Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Communist Party Committee at that time, inscribed for Shanghai CITS: “Make more contributions to the prosperity of Shanghai tourism industry.”
1st of its kind to pass ISO9001 International Quality Management System Certification.
In 2003, Shanghai CITS became a member of Jinjiang International Group and renamed as Shanghai China International Travel Service Ltd.(Shanghai CITS, SCITS). As an affiliated enterprise to Jinjiang International Group, the largest integrated tourism enterprise group in China, Shanghai CITS has become more substantial and powerful in product design, software and hardware support, tourist operation resources and comprehensive capabilities, etc..
The group’s total asset amounts to 18 billion yuan and owns an enormous amount of star-rated hotels such as Waldorf Astoria Shanghai on the Bund and Fairmont Peace Hotel Shanghai, ranking the 2nd among top 300 global groups. The group successfully acquired the Radisson Hotel Management Group in 2018.
In 2011, Shanghai CITS was awarded by the Ministry of Commerce of China as a “Time-honored Enterprise”, the only one in China’s travel agencies.
Appraised by China Travel Service Industry Association in 2018 & 2019 as “Top Performance Enterprise for Inbound Travel”.
Jinjiang International Group is the largest comprehensive hotel and tourism enterprise group in China wholly owned by Shanghai SASAC (State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission), with a registered capital of 2 billion yuan. It has three core business, relevant industries of real estate, industry and finance as well as other basic industries holding the controlling shares of four listed companies: Jinjiang Hotel (2006HK), Jinjiang Co. Ltd. (600754, 900934), Jinjiang Investment (600650, 900914) and Jinjiang Int’l Travel (900929). At present, the group's three core business accounts for more than 90% of revenue, initially forming a hotel-centered travel service industry chain. Jinjiang is a Chinese national brand with a history of more than 85 years.
Focusing on the strategy of "Deep Cultivation in China, Global Expansion and Multi-National Operation", the Group has successively acquired the French Louvre Hotel Group, Plateno Group and Vienna Hotel Group and invested strategically in the French Accor Hotel Group. In 2018, the Group successfully acquired the Radisson Hotel Management Group. By the end of 2018, the Group has invested and managed more than 12,000 hotels and more than 1.3 million rooms, possessing over 40 brands of upscale, mid-scale and budget hotels such as Jinjiang, Kunlun, Radisson, Golden Tulip, Jinjiang Metropolis, Campanile and Vienna in 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions of China and over 120 countries around the world with 150 million loyalty members, ranking the second largest in the global hotel groups.
As one of the leading enterprises in China's travel agency industry, "Jinjiang Travel" ranks among the top 20 brands of China's travel agencies. “ Jinjiang Auto” owns more than 10,000 medium and high-grade passenger vehicles ranking first in China in terms of its comprehensive reception capability. The Group also owns Sino-Swiss Les Roches International School of Hotel Management which is engaged in the training of middle and senior hotel management professionals and joint ventures of famous catering brands such as "KFC" and " Yoshinoya “.
In line with the 16 character policy of "gene invariance, backstage integration, complementary advantages and common development", the group introduced the idea of "Internet + Sharing Economy" to accelerate the creation of a "One Center, Three Platforms", namely: Jinjiang Hotel Global Innovation Center and WeHotel Global Travel Industry Sharing Platform, Global Unified Purchasing Sharing Platform and Global Hotel Financial Sharing Platform to promote the integration of global hotel resources on a first-class world standard and strive to build a worldrenowned hotel management group.