Management is buying the same thing twice: proven demand from one place is being replicated into identified new places r
The model's full reasoning — Q4 2017 call → NOWe need answer YES/NO. Need analyze transcript. Question asks: Does management describe company as CURRENTLY IN MIDDLE OF COPYING A PART OF ITS OWN BUSINESS THAT IS ALREADY WORKING INTO ADDITIONAL PLACES WHERE SAME DEMAND IS ALREADY VISIBLE? Need identify specific proven instance, copies being stood up now, demand already identified at destination, replication large relative to company, results reflect original instance. Transcript: Donald talks about local tour operators. "Starting in 2016, we moved further up travel supply chain by introducing a number of our own local tour operators in major destinations, such as Xiamen, Beijing and Changsha. As of now, we have our own local tour operators in 12 domestic destinations and two international destinations. Products with Tuniu's local tour operators contributed to less than 5% of our packaged tour GMV during 2017. In the long run, we expect this to reach approximately 28% to 30%. The number of trips sold by our local tour operators was over 600,000 for full year 2017, displaying very strong growth." Then "2017 was just the start of our local tour operator initiative. There is a lot of room to grow, and we intend to replicate the success of our local tour operators in other domestic and international destinations." This seems: proven instance? Local tour operators in 12 domestic and 2 international, sold 600k trips, contributed <5% GMV. They are proven? They say "replicate the success" and "intend to replicate" - but are copies physically being stood up now? They say "As of now, we have our own local tour operators in 12 domestic destinations and two international destinations." "2017 was just the start... intend to replicate" That sounds future intention, not currently standing up. Also "we expect this to reach 28-30% in long run." No mention of currently opening new local tour operators. So NO. Another possible: off-line retail stores. "Starting in 2016, we launched a number of off-line retail stores... Today, Tuniu have many forms... In 2017, we continued to open off-line retail stores throughout China... We are seeing positive results...
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