Published on : Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Alipay and Tourism Australia are partnering on a tentative Sydney City Card program to market the key attractions of the city to the Chinese visitors, CMO reported. The program will make the most of geo-targeted marketing and allow customers to make payments for experiences. It comes in the middle of the Chinese New Year, when locals visit international destinations like Australia. To quote Alipay A/NZ Country Manager George Lawson said, “The Sydney City Card pilot is an innovative approach to engaging with our largest tourist market and provides Australia with a critical advantage over other regional tourist hotspots during this peak annual travel period.”
In Israel, Google is keen to launch Google Pay before the close of 2019, Haaretz reported. The tech giant has been talking with regulators, credit card companies, FinTech startups and executives from banks in meetings. As it appears, the digital wallet can be utilized to transfer from one person to another in the U.S., U.K. and India beyond payments for goods and services. And, in Japan, Russia, and Ukraine, one can make the use of wallet to pay for mass transit. Also, the wallet is said to be used for handling concert tickets or airline boarding passes.