As global tourism transitions from a year of recovery to a year of growth in 2025, global merchants tap on Alipay+, Ant International’s cross-border mobile payment and digitalisation solutions, to enhance payments, in-app marketing and digital services development, to attract tourists.
Alipay+ supports over 35 international wallet and bank payment partners, connecting their 1.6 billion user accounts to more than 90 million merchants in 66 markets.
Alipay+ recently enabled acceptance for new partners, including Kaspi.kz (Kazakhstan) and BigPay (Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand), connecting even more users to its global merchants.
Around the world, Alipay+ and its merchant partners are jointly introducing promotions for Alipay+ payment partner users, in anticipation of the seasonal travel surge. Together with Alipay+, leading retailers like Resorts World Sentosa, Marina Bay Sands, Central Retail, King Power, Pavilion KL, Lotte World, Olive Young, Daimaru, Printemps, Galleries Lafayette and airport duty free stores with more than one hundred thousand stores are driving in-store and in-app engagement with upsized rewards.
In the Philippines, Alipay+ welcomes SM Supermalls, the largest retail chain in the Philippines and cornerstone of Filipino lifestyle culture, and Hennan Group of Resorts, a premier hospitality brand with 10 resorts in Boracay and Bohol.
“Tourism is playing an increasingly significant role to local economies, accelerating growth for merchants across sectors, but businesses need to adapt to new digital habits and preferences,” said Douglas Feagin, President of Ant International.
“Starting with mobile payments, Alipay+ offers merchants solutions to connect, engage and retain customers who want to leverage technology to enhance their travel experiences. We will continue to offer more innovative ways for businesses to transform and benefit from the continued growth in tourism.”
Travellers can simply use their preferred home payment app, including e-wallets, banks apps and BNPL. These travellers can “travel like a local” and pay seamlessly at online and offline merchants across their travel journey from OTAs, airlines and hotels, to street-side vendors, restaurants, shopping malls, attractions, transportation and more. More than 90 percent of Alipay+ merchants are MSMEs so that these small businesses can grow by accepting multiple international payment apps.
Alipay+ is accepted at offline merchants in key destinations across Asia, Europe and the Middle East, covering a wide range of travel scenarios. Through its partnerships with standardised QR operators like PayPay in Japan, ZeroPay in South Korea, DuitNow in Malaysia, SGQR in Singapore and the Alipay merchant network in the Chinese mainland, users of Alipay+’s partner payment apps can make convenient payment almost everywhere in these Asian hotspots. Alipay+ continues to grow its acceptance in Europe with more than 400,000 merchants and supporting interoperable payments via Bluecode.