AMADEUS is helping its customers tap the Chinese travel market by integrating Chinese online payment service provider, Alipay, into the Amadeus Payment Platform.
The partnership, announced today, allows Amadeus users to offer Chinese travellers the option of settling payments via Alipay, which is used by millions of registered Chinese consumers.
“With this collaboration we add a key payment provider to our platform to satisfy our customers’ payment needs. Our travel-payment expertise, combined with Alipay’ market penetration and the ease of using Alipay’s products, will provide our customers with the right solution to meet Chinese payment demands,” said Celia Pereiro, head of Amadeus Travel Payments.
China was ranked by UN World Tourism Organization as the world’s top-spending tourism market in 2012 (TTG Asia e-Daily, April 8, 2013).
