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Destination: DaLian, A city of China, in northern part of China. Target Audience: Young people who are keen to travel; seafood lover; advanture and winter lover. Portal name: gogodalian There are 6 areas will be presented: 1) Hot Spring & Ski : Da Lian is a famous city for winnter sports, experience the ski and hot spring here is the "must go" 2) Discovery Land: A theme park located in the countryside area, exploring more excited activities there. 3) International Da Lian Beer Festival: This is a festival held every year in Sep. Thousands of beer producers come to Dalian for this big event. people can taste different kind of beer from worldwide 4) Sea Food Exploration: Da Lian is costal city which located between mountains and seas. It surounded by seas, therefore, it famous in seafood products. eaing seafood is considered as a necessary activity for the tourists to Da Lian. 5) Victory Square: The shopping paradise for the youths, if you are looking for stylish accessories and clothes, Victory square is the best place to go, there are thousands of boutuqiues there which made you shopping until crazy 6)Sheng Ya underwater world: This is one of the biggest Underwater World in China, if you visit there on the right time, the performances will impress you.
 * Country Portal Design**

My idea of doing this portal is basically apply the 3D flash and Google Map function. First of all, i will find out a map of Dalian, it's a general map no need to be so detailed. then above 6 parts of attractions will be on the map, once the visitor click one area of the map, the activity will come out with the link of it. It is something like this:

The Meta Tag suggest: dalianattraction, daliangowhere, tourdalian

As been signed by lecturer, our group was doing Marriot Hotel for this particular exercise. I was very impressed by the home page of the Marriot hotel. They have clear metatags, links with other partners such as the car service company. moreover, they have their only research engine that is helping the customers to search the room they want by keywords. and also the web 2.0 that they use youtube and facebook. we also found some links that can link to the Marriot hotel such as trip advisors and hotelonline etc. web page through other web pages.
 * Class Group Work - Marriot Hotel**

More interesting, Marriot hotel has this called " guest reward system" which applies for the frequent guests of the hotel, with their bookings, guests will have the rewarding points accumulated in their personal account. So when they book with the Marriot next time, these points will be directly paid instead of paying money. In addtion, guests are able to sign in as a member of the Marriot hotel through the website.

However, we were unable to find any google ad word in the google website. That is means the distribution of the hotel is very narrow. They should consider doing a partnership with google or other famous websites. And for the internal e-system, Marriot hotel is the same as other hotels, it has the reservation system, but the problem is once customer fill in all the informations and requirements, the website will displayed " thank you for booking with Marriot, your booking will be processed within 3 days, we will get back to you later". I personally think this is not effective. So maybe in the future, the instant confirmation booking systems can replace the current one which will surely improve hotel's occupancy rate.

That is the all for today's work.

I chosen Alibaba as the research website. I want to buy the clothes imported from Japan.
 * 16th Mar, 2009 E-Business**

1. Payment mode Alibaba is an international based e-business website, they adopt the most traditional payment mode as in online credit card. Additionally, they have associate with one of the biggest communication electronic company in China: Uni.com. It enable the buyers to pay by their mobile phone. Thirdly, you have the option to join as a member, then you will have a personal account, just like a "basket" in the supermarket, you can select the goods you wanna buy. In your account, you have some points which you toped up with cash card, so every transection is thru the point instead of the real money sense. It makes the e-business more realistic and faster than the traditional one. However, the problem confronted is the security of one's personal account, if someone steals others' point, it will cause a big problem.

2.Security Issue Alibaba is not only a Business to Customer website, it's also a B2B e-business website. All the trasections on this website are " payment first, delivery secondly". If the buyers use the credit card payment to process their trasection, once they key in the credit card number, the website will immediately send out a email to the buyer as attach a security number, using this number, the buyer is able to check whether the seller has received money and when the seller delivery theri goods out. If i translate the slogan on this website, it is " reliable and credible business that you ever have".

3. Availability Availability on Alibaba is the only thing i feel not so good. Since they have to confirm the payment first, it definitely reduce the efficiency of the delivery. For example, i choose to purchase a Japanese made skirt, it said that for the overseas delivery, there will be 8 -14 days. it is quite long anyway. I think Alibaba should consider whether they could settle the payment and delivery at the same time. However, the security issue is still the most important issue for users.

4. Cost To be honest, i am not a person like online purchasing, the reason is i don't trust the things that i can't touch and feel. I feel that most people like online purchasing is because the price of the goods are much cheaper than eslewhere resulted from the accumulated renting cost, advertising cost and so forth. The skirt i chosen on this website is very cheap, if convert to SWF, it is only 4 dollars. However, i have to pay the delivery fee by myself. Since i am currently in Swiss, i found that the delivery fee is even higher than the cost of this skirt !! But, i found if i buy 50 skirts at the same time, (as a whole sale), the delivery price is not much different from i buy one. Thus i think Alibaba business is more preferrable to the B2B.

5. Mobile Mobile payment is applicable in Alibaba China as talked in section 1.

6. Cutomer Target The Alibaba is targetting both retailer and wholesaler. They engage the users to establish one's own business online. You can choose to franchaise any business available on the Alibaba. The only thing you do is to JOIN one of the business, then paying, then you will have your own platform of business.