Shulou(Shulou.com)12/24 Report--

With the countdown to the New year, China and many countries have gradually liberalized the mutual visa exemption, the enthusiasm of Chinese people to travel abroad is heating up, and domestic businesses are also ready for the peak of overseas tourists. On December 14, Ant Group announced that it would join hands with millions of merchants around the world to launch an one-and-a-half-month "New year Adventure season", allowing multiple payment software users at home and abroad to "travel around the world with one mobile phone". Through the preferential outbound service on Alipay, Chinese tourists can not only enjoy superimposed discounts and surprises, but also join the "Sustainable outbound Travel" initiative to get free mobile traffic packages and exclusive payment code skin, saving money, worry and effort to travel around the world.

Two overseas flow packages can be paid for outbound travel code scanning.

At present, Alipay's outbound travel service covers more than 70 countries and regions around the world, and 8 million merchants are using Alipay for business, covering all aspects of clothing, food, accommodation, transportation, travel, shopping, and so on, including taking taxis, taking subways and renting electric scooters overseas. With Christmas and New Year's Day approaching, businesses all over the world have to fight for the New year's economy, ranging from core business circles, popular scenic spots, airport duty-free shops to durian stalls and handicrafts shops. all have arranged the most representative Chinese elements such as Chinese shopping guides and QR codes. In the newly launched "New year's Adventures season", Baohui outbound and overseas merchants will issue a total of more than 1 million global consumption coupons, making it convenient for tourists to "buy" enough wool and make travel plans before leaving.

(the picture says: Alipay has many discounts in "New year's Strange season". Outbound travel not only has superimposed discounts, but also can join the "Sustainable outbound Travel" initiative to get free mobile traffic packages and exclusive payment code skin)

In addition to the discount, you can also avoid the trouble of buying overseas flow packages. users with sesame points above 550 points can get 5G flow packages worth 30 yuan for outbound travel (China Mobile or China Unicom) for free if they scan more than 2 payments abroad. You can also get your own "sustainable outbound travel" payment code skin.

"compared with overseas trips and group tours in the past, people now look forward to in-depth experience, feel the local scenery and understand different cultures." Huang Yin, general manager of the global offline merchant service department of Ant Group Alipay +, said that the popularity of mobile payments has made overseas small and medium-sized merchants, treasure shops and traditional neighborhoods "not afraid of the deep alleys", without having to bear the expensive terminal fees. Through a mobile phone and a QR code, the payment can be collected safely and conveniently, and there is no need to bear the expensive equipment costs, making the tourism industry more beneficial. Make it more convenient for traditional cultures around the world to "go out". " Digital payment is also a paperless low-carbon behavior, and Alipay encourages consumers to work together to achieve more authentic and friendly "sustainable outbound travel" through joint partners, Huang said.

(picture shows: Malaysia local milk tea coolblog can use Alipay + service to facilitate Chinese and Malaysian customers to pay by scanning code.)

Take Malaysia, a popular two-way visa-free destination for outbound travel with China since December, as an example, more than 80% of businesses of all sizes can use Alipay, and the number of active merchants has doubled since 2019. In this "New year Adventure season", Malaysian merchants and Alipay jointly promote authentic discounts, allowing Chinese tourists to "buy" a Malaysia exclusive coupon bag worth 75 yuan for only 8.8 yuan. no matter taking a taxi, eating, buying milk tea, going to convenience stores and entering duty-free shops can be used. If tourists return from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, duty-free shops can spend more than 2000 yuan less on Alipay.

Using Alipay as soon as you leave the country has become one of the indicators recognized by businesses to improve the satisfaction of Chinese tourists. "since the beginning of this year, through the D-store service provided by Ant Group, we have successfully launched Mini Program in Alipay and local Malaysian wallet Touchn Go. Now Chinese tourists have informed Alipay that they can also order online to become members, and we have also prepared exclusive discounts for Chinese tourists." Sue Li, founder of CoolBlog, Malaysia's most popular milk tea brand, said, "the visa-free policy is very good for our local small businesses. We are looking forward to New Year's Day and more Chinese friends coming for the Spring Festival to try some Malaysian-style melon milk tea!"

3 million Chinese businessmen receive overseas tourists for the first time

Chinese outbound travel is on the rise at the end of the year, while foreigners are also coming to China more and more. With the gradual relaxation of China's immigration policy

According to the latest data released by the Capital Airport: from January to November this year, the number of international and regional passengers at the Capital Airport reached 6.71 million, and it is expected that the number of international and regional passengers will be close to 8 million in 2023. Mobile payment is becoming a new link for them to travel, work, live and spend in China.

Before the Hangzhou Asian Games, through Ant Group's Alipay + innovative cross-border payment technology solution, users in 7 countries and regions, including South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand, have been able to use 10 e-wallets commonly used at home to directly scan the code to pay in China; friends from other countries and regions can also use Alipay to tie up foreign cards to achieve "a mobile phone to travel to China". According to the latest data released by Ant Group, the number of "foreigners" spending on wallets in their hometown in China continued to grow steadily after the Hangzhou Asian Games, with an increase of 26% in November compared with October. Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing are the three major Chinese cities with the largest mobile payments.

(photo: before entering the Expo, the "Alipay + Mobile payment experience desk" appeared at the international arrival gates of Shanghai Pudong Airport and Hongqiao Airport.)

Among them, Malaysians come to China to use mobile payment with the highest frequency. Ni Xiang, torchbearer of the Hangzhou Asian Games and chief executive of TNG Digital, said: "I traveled in China during the Asian Games and had no problem using only the Touch'n Go eWallet on my mobile phone for a week. I had a very good experience as a tourist." Touch'n Go eWallet is like the Malaysian version of Alipay. Malaysian users have seen a significant increase in spending in China before and after the Asian Games, with the transaction value increasing by nearly 200% in November compared with August. Shanghai Disneyland tourism, Guangzhou subway ticket purchase and so on are all the favorite consumption scenes for Malaysian tourists. "

In addition, overseas users can also use Alipay when they come to China. First of all, download registered Alipay, followed by binding bank cards, currently Alipay has supported mainstream international card group bank cards, such as Visa, Mastercard, JCB, Diners Club, Discover, etc.; use is also synchronized with domestic Alipay users, whether it is offline store consumption, or bus, subway, taxi, cycling, hotel booking, air tickets, train tickets, scenic spot tickets, etc., wherever Alipay is available in China, they can also use it.

So far, the number of overseas users using Alipay has increased by 125% compared with June. It is worth mentioning that Zibo in Shandong Province, which is known as "barbecue" online this year, and cultural travel resorts familiar to Chinese people, such as Chaoshan in Guangdong, Lijiang in Yunnan, and Guilin in Guangxi, are also popular overseas, and the number of punch-in visits by overseas users has increased by more than 10 times year-on-year.

Since the Asian Games, more and more Chinese shops have been transformed into "multinational stores" through a small QR code. From September to November this year, more than 3 million Chinese businesses received the first batch of overseas tourists through Alipay + services.

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