Chinese Travelers Turn to Messaging Apps To Make Payments
Skift Take
The Chinese outbound market is booming yet travelers still find low acceptance of their typical payment methods. As travel becomes more accessible to the Chinese lower and middle class offering payment methods such as AliPay and WeChat Pay will be a definitive competitive advantage.
Last week we launched the latest report in our Skift Research service, The State of Consumer Payments in Travel 2017.
Below is an excerpt from our Skift Research Report. Get the full report here to stay ahead of this trend.
“Chinese are traveling all over the world and they want to pay with AliPay and WeChat Pay” said Pieter van der Does, CEO of Adyen, at a recent conference.
The growth of the Chinese outbound travel market is significant due to a variety of reasons, among which are cultural, political, and economic. Beyond the simple fact that a 15 percent growth
