<p class="title">China's largest online travel agency Ctrip has removed from its platform products offering travel and accommodation services to Arunachal Pradesh following objections raised by Chinese netizens.</p>.<p class="bodytext">China claims Arunachal Pradesh as part of southern Tibet. India firmly maintains that the state is integral and inalienable part of the country.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ctrip.com International Limited, a Chinese provider of global travel services including travel and hotel accommodation, is currently regarded as the largest online travel agency in China.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It removed the relevant products from its platform after 'We-media' exposed screenshots of Ctrip's webpage and phone application allegedly showing products "calling South Tibet as Arunachal Pradesh", state-run Global Times reported on Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The daily quoted a statement issued by a Ctrip publicity department as saying that the company has "removed the wrong information overnight" after noticing reports.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, in the statement, Ctrip did not confirm or deny that the information refers to the depiction of the Sino-India border, the daily's report said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ctrip said it is determined to safeguard China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity and will launch a comprehensive investigation to avoid similar problems from happening again.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ctrip's action followed after screenshots posted by kunlunce.cn, the website of a Beijing-based think tank, showed that search results for the keywords 'Arunachal Pradesh' in both Chinese and English display hotels in the region.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, in the geographical description, such sites were described 'in India', the report said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Ctrip has designated the South Tibet region as Indian territory by calling it 'Arunachal Pradesh'. Is it going to sell the country in such an open fashion," a netizen named baishuiwentianxia said on Sina Weibo on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Last month Chinese officials destroyed three lakh world maps printed in the country for exports for not showing Arunachal Pradesh and Taiwan as part of China.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The two countries have so far held 21 rounds of talks to resolve the border dispute covering 3,488-km-long Line of Actual Control (LAC). China also claims the estranged island of Taiwan as part of it.</p>
<p class="title">China's largest online travel agency Ctrip has removed from its platform products offering travel and accommodation services to Arunachal Pradesh following objections raised by Chinese netizens.</p>.<p class="bodytext">China claims Arunachal Pradesh as part of southern Tibet. India firmly maintains that the state is integral and inalienable part of the country.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ctrip.com International Limited, a Chinese provider of global travel services including travel and hotel accommodation, is currently regarded as the largest online travel agency in China.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It removed the relevant products from its platform after 'We-media' exposed screenshots of Ctrip's webpage and phone application allegedly showing products "calling South Tibet as Arunachal Pradesh", state-run Global Times reported on Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The daily quoted a statement issued by a Ctrip publicity department as saying that the company has "removed the wrong information overnight" after noticing reports.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, in the statement, Ctrip did not confirm or deny that the information refers to the depiction of the Sino-India border, the daily's report said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ctrip said it is determined to safeguard China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity and will launch a comprehensive investigation to avoid similar problems from happening again.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ctrip's action followed after screenshots posted by kunlunce.cn, the website of a Beijing-based think tank, showed that search results for the keywords 'Arunachal Pradesh' in both Chinese and English display hotels in the region.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, in the geographical description, such sites were described 'in India', the report said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Ctrip has designated the South Tibet region as Indian territory by calling it 'Arunachal Pradesh'. Is it going to sell the country in such an open fashion," a netizen named baishuiwentianxia said on Sina Weibo on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Last month Chinese officials destroyed three lakh world maps printed in the country for exports for not showing Arunachal Pradesh and Taiwan as part of China.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The two countries have so far held 21 rounds of talks to resolve the border dispute covering 3,488-km-long Line of Actual Control (LAC). China also claims the estranged island of Taiwan as part of it.</p>