Internet woos prospective tourists
By Yang Feiyue | China Daily | Updated: 2016-12-10 07:13
About 100 'veterans' are made tourism celebrities in a tourism video alliance of China CYTS Tours Holding Co and yixia.com, a popular video live-streaming platform operator
Lin Tingting's gets to travel free and also gets paid in exchange for sharing her travel experience and tips with her fans. Now, her Weibo microblog account (Abby45) has more than 150,000 followers and her increasing popularity in tourism circles has earned her a contract with Miaopai, a Vine-like short video sharing app, where she has more than 210,000 fans.
Born in the 1980s in Fujian province's Xiamen, Lin started out in the logistics industry, but her love of travel spurred her to share her photos on Poco.cn, one of the most popular photo sharing sites in China.
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