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On November 29, China announced that the company has established South Travel Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Toyota Hainan Travel") in Hainan Province, and started to provide high-quality travel services in Hainan Province. It is understood that Toyota China, together with Toyota Finance, Zhongsheng group and Jiahua group, provides travel services. In the early stage, Toyota's main business in Hainan includes short-term leasing, concierge transfer and long-term leasing. The short-term lease is mainly for tourists inside and outside the island, and can be made by various ways such as WeChat official account, travel website and cooperative hotel of TOYOTA Hainan travel limited. The service models include mainly Asian dragon, RAV4 Rong Fang, and Highlander. The concierge service will use ELFA and ES models. In the future, it plans to invest in more energy-saving and environmental friendly models and models. "Camry" said that the maintenance and repair of all vehicles are completed in Toyota or Lexus brand dealerships, and the drivers responsible for the transfer service, reception and other staff are all dealership employees trained through the service standard system of Toyota and Lexus brands. In addition, all service models are new and equipped with dash cam and reverse image as standard. Official statistics show that in 2018, the number of tourists exceeded 76 million, and it is expected to exceed 100 million in 2021. Toyota China said that in order to meet the growing demand for high-end vehicles, the company took the lead in developing high-quality travel services in Hainan, accelerating the transformation of enterprises to mobile service providers, and will provide more Chinese users with more rich and diverse high-quality mobile outbound services in the future. In fact, more and more enterprises are transforming to travel companies. No matter foreign brands,,, GM, or Chinese brands SAIC, BAIC, etc., have expressed their willingness to transform to "mobile travel service provider". From the attitude of many automobile enterprises, this is not a coincidence, but a choice based on the development of automobile industry in the future. In the future, who will be the first to occupy the highland of the travel market? We will keep our attention.