HANGZHOU, China, December 12, 2023–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Alipay, the main digital cost and life-style service platform, has partnered with prime on-line journey companies, together with Journey.com, a world one-stop journey service supplier and Tuniu, an built-in leisure journey service supplier in China, to launch chosen tour packages and journey information on the Alipay app for worldwide vacationers touring to China. The primary batch of the launch features a complete of 20 packages aimed toward serving to worldwide vacationers navigate their travels in China.
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A screenshot of tour packages within the Alipay app for worldwide vacationers to China (Graphic: Enterprise Wire)
The packages embrace excursions with an English-speaking information at well-known vacationer sights such because the Palace Museum and Badaling Nice Wall in Beijing, Chengdu Analysis Base of Large Panda Breeding and Jiuzhaigou Nationwide Park (Jiuzhai Valley) in Sichuan Province, Shaolin Temple in Henan Province, and Shanghai Disney Resort and the Bund in Shanghai. A number of the sights supply low cost as much as 20%.
Alipay and Journey.com additionally launched a China Journey Information within the app with complete journey recommendation within the nation. The information gives detailed data on matters resembling pre-travel checklists, visa purposes, sights, inns, cell cost, communication, transport, reserving companies and extra.
Cross-border journey, together with inbound journey to China, is witnessing a steady surge globally given the rise in flights and favorable insurance policies. In line with Journey.com information, from January to October this yr, inbound tour orders elevated 125% year-on-year in comparison with 2022.
Ranging from December 1, 2023 to November 30, 2024, vacationers holding extraordinary passports from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Malaysia can get pleasure from visa-free entry to China. They’ll additionally keep for as much as 15 days for enterprise, tourism, household visits and transit functions.
“With its main world journey companies, Journey.com seeks to collaborate with business companions like Alipay to proceed enhancing the expertise of inbound vacationers and draw extra worldwide travellers to China. Journey.com goals to extend the variety of inbound vacationers served in 2024 by greater than 150% in contrast with 2019,” mentioned Jiqiang Wang, vice common supervisor of digital advertising and marketing at Journey.com.
“We’re delighted to work with companions throughout the business to reinforce worldwide vacationers’ cost and journey expertise in China. Because the main digital pockets in China, Alipay will proceed to optimize services to raised serve worldwide guests,” mentioned Yaoyao Jin answerable for worldwide vacationers’ utilization of Alipay. “We additionally encourage extra retailers and repair suppliers working digitally on Alipay platform to reinforce their companies for worldwide vacationers.”
Along with Journey.com, Alipay additionally launched the “New Yr, New Exploration” marketing campaign on social media, inviting worldwide vacationers enthusiastic about exploring China to journey like a neighborhood utilizing their cell phone.
Alipay has been frequently bettering its services for worldwide vacationers. After downloading the Alipay app, abroad vacationers now can join and hyperlink their worldwide credit score or debit card from Visa, Mastercard, JCB, Uncover®, and Diners Membership Worldwide® to pay at tens of hundreds of thousands of Alipay accomplice retailers throughout China, together with eating places, cafes, vacationer sights, purchasing malls, road stalls and public transport. It additionally integrates frequently-used journey companies, together with resort reserving, air tickets reserving, car-hailing, trade charge checking, and translation.
Along with utilizing Alipay to pay like a neighborhood in China, worldwide vacationers from 7 nations and areas together with Malaysia and Singapore may use their residence e-wallet whereas touring round China. These residence e-wallets embrace AlipayHK (Hong Kong SAR, China), mPay (Macao SAR, China), Contact ’n Go eWallet (Malaysia), Kakao Pay (South Korea), Hipay (Mongolia), Changi Pay (Singapore), OCBC (Singapore), Naver Pay (South Korea), Toss Pay (South Korea) and TrueMoney (Thailand).
About Alipay
Within the digital period, Alipay has advanced from a trusted cost software to an open platform that connects companies, establishments, service suppliers, and different companions with customers. Alipay allows companions from varied industries to supply protected and handy cost choices. It additionally allows companions to speak and ship totally different digital companies to their clients in China by Alipay mini packages, life-style accounts and different instruments. The Alipay platform has related over 80 million companies with multiple billion customers.
About Journey.com
Journey.com is a global one-stop journey service supplier, obtainable in 24 languages throughout 39 nations and areas in 35 native currencies. Journey.com has an intensive resort and flight community consisting of greater than 1.2 million inns and flights from over 510 airways masking 3,400 airports in 220 nations and areas across the globe. Journey.com’s world-class 24/7 multilingual customer support, in addition to further centres in Edinburgh, Tokyo and Seoul, assist to ‘create the perfect journey expertise’ for its hundreds of thousands of consumers worldwide. To e-book your subsequent journey, go to journey.com.
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