Articles tagged “wechat”

Online Travel

China’s Tongcheng Travel Has High Hopes For Generation Z

As Tongcheng Travel waits for China to relax restrictions and open travel, the online travel company has used the downtime to diversify its user base. Now if only the borders would fully reopen!

Peden Doma Bhutia | 7 months ago

China’s Tongcheng Travel Has High Hopes For Generation Z

Business Travel

Trip.com Sees Biggest Business Travel Growth in China’s Second Cities

As for future business travel hotspots in China, plenty of gems come up in a new report published this week by Trip.Biz, the corporate travel division of Trip.com. It offers agencies real insight into the minds of business travelers, as well as opportunities to grow in a country that's ready to rebound after strict lockdowns.

Matthew Parsons | 10 months ago

Trip.com Sees Biggest Business Travel Growth in China’s Second Cities

Business Travel

Will This Be the Year Corp Travel Agencies Finally Follow Customers Into Chat?

Messaging and collaboration tools help businesses run smoothly in these pandemic times, but not all travel agencies have their finger on the pulse.

Matthew Parsons, Skift | 2 years ago

Will This Be the Year Corp Travel Agencies Finally Follow Customers Into Chat?

Business Travel

A Superapp Betting on Corporate Travel During a Pandemic

Latin America's Rappi now offers business travel alongside things like takeaways, pet food and furniture. It doesn’t sound like a winning combination, but different parts of the world have different appetites for digitization.

Matthew Parsons, Skift | 2 years ago

A Superapp Betting on Corporate Travel During a Pandemic

Online Travel

The Largest IPO in History Just Happened and It Has a Huge Travel Angle

Booking.com, Airbnb, Marriott, and every high-end retail shop on the Champs-Élysées want to see the proliferation of Alipay and other digital payment services to capture the spending of Chinese travelers. But Alipay's key cross-border payments strategy, despite a record-setting IPO, has run into major snags.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 2 years ago

The Largest IPO in History Just Happened and It Has a Huge Travel Angle

Online Travel

What Trump’s WeChat Ban May Mean for the Travel Sector

Trump's ban on the Chinese superapp WeChat may turn out to be a mere annoyance for many Chinese travelers. But it could cause real harm to some U.S. travel organizations.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 3 years ago

What Trump’s WeChat Ban May Mean for the Travel Sector

Tourism

China’s Tencent Partners With Helsinki to Help Chinese Travelers Live Like Locals

Chinese travelers are the world's largest outbound travel market. With the launch of Helsinki's WeChat collaboration, it seems the days of asking them to pay cash in a destination are numbered.

Rosie Spinks, Skift | 4 years ago

China’s Tencent Partners With Helsinki to Help Chinese Travelers Live Like Locals

Online Travel

Skift Forum Asia Video: How APAC is Transforming the Global Payments Landscape

Mobile payments are already commonplace in parts of Asia — China particularly — but as travelers adopt these tools, travel companies will need both local expertise and deep technological capabilities to make sure their guests can pay when and how they like.

Skift | 4 years ago

Skift Forum Asia Video: How APAC is Transforming the Global Payments Landscape

Online Travel

Google Maps Is Ready to Transform the World of Superapps: A Skift Deep Dive

Consumers in the West reach almost reflexively for the Google Maps app as the service becomes a nearly ubiquitous utility despite a dearth of messaging and payments. Whether it evolves into the next superapp may depend on whether users really want a do-everything app and the mood of regulators seeking to break up big tech.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

Google Maps Is Ready to Transform the World of Superapps: A Skift Deep Dive

Online Travel

Japan Adopts New Payments Tech in Response to Chinese Tourism Boom

Americans and Europeans who used to scoff at QR-style bar codes are going to need to learn how to use them to pay for meals, attractions, and tickets whenever they visit Japan. The reason? Swelling Chinese tourism is prompting the country to adopt China’s preferred mobile payment method.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 4 years ago

Japan Adopts New Payments Tech in Response to Chinese Tourism Boom