Elong
Elong is one of the online-travel competitors discussed in 困在系统里的酒店，你不知道的携程垄断练成史. The episode says it was founded by Tang Yue and at one point received investment from Expedia Group.
The source uses Elong alongside Qunar and Tongcheng Travel to explain how different online-travel paths eventually entered a capital-consolidation environment around Ctrip / Trip.com Group.
EP91 订房订票定江山，携程51亿为傲慢买单 adds the strategy-pressure angle. It says Elong narrowed its business around hotel booking, used low prices and cash-back tactics, and exposed weaknesses in Ctrip’s heavier multi-line service model before Ctrip became Elong’s largest shareholder in 2015.
Connections
- Ctrip / Trip.com Group — dominant competitor and consolidation context.
- Qunar and Tongcheng Travel — other OTA competitors in the source.
- Expedia Group — investor/global OTA context mentioned by the episode.
- Online Travel Agency and OTA Platform Concentration — market-structure concepts.