{"id":100866,"date":"2017-09-03T16:53:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T14:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/chinese-tourists-can-now-use-alipay-in-10000-merchants-across-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2017-09-03T16:53:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T14:53:19","slug":"chinese-tourists-can-now-use-alipay-in-10000-merchants-across-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/chinese-tourists-can-now-use-alipay-in-10000-merchants-across-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese tourists can now use Alipay in 10,000 merchants across South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese tourists can now use Alipay in 10,000 merchants across South Africa<\/a>: <\/p>\n

\"Chinese<\/p>\n

Good News for Chinese Tourists<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Starting today, Chinese tourists in South Africa will have more opportunities to pay via smartphone as Alipay, the world\u2019s largest online and mobile payment platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group (\u201cAnt Financial\u201d, \u201cAnt\u201d), partners with Zapper, the fast-growing mobile payment, customer insights and digital marketing platform developed in South Africa.<\/p>\n

This partnership will allow them to use their Alipay app to pay at 10,000 Zapper-affiliated merchants across the country. Chinese tourists will be able to search for restaurants, bars, theatres, book shops, adventure parks and more through Alipay\u2019s in-app Discovery platform, and pay for their orders in RMB via Alipay by scanning a Zapper QR code.<\/p>\n

\u201cSouth Africa is a must-experience country for Chinese tourists visiting Africa. We are excited to partner with Zapper, the largest mobile payment provider in South Africa, to offer Chinese tourists a safe and convenient payment solution and seamless travel experience,\u201d said Rita Liu, Head of Alipay EMEA.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis cross-continental alliance is in line with the series of expansions into new verticals that Zapper is currently undertaking to diversify its service range, and further strengthen its position as South Africa\u2019s mobile payment and loyalty rewards app of choice. These verticals include hospitality, retail, bills, e-commerce, donations, parking, fuel and convenience,\u201d said Will Heygate, General Manager of Zapper South Africa.<\/p>\n

This development arrives on the heels of the online payment service for hop-on-hop-off bus ticketing in Cape Town and Johannesburg that Alipay launched in June this year.<\/p>\n

With Alipay\u2019s more than 520 million Chinese users and Zapper\u2019s rapidly burgeoning presence within the global payment landscape, each brand is now also better positioned to strengthen their appeal to the Asian and African customer respectively.<\/p>\n

According to statistics by the South African Department of Tourism, over 110,000 Chinese tourists visited South Africa in the fiscal year of 2016, with a year-on-year growth of 38%. Tourism in South Africa has continuously grown for 7 years and weights 9% of the country\u2019s GDP.<\/p>\n

The South African government has recognized the tourism sector’s potential to generate economic growth and employment creation. Through the Department of Tourism’s strategic plan – National Tourism Sector Strategy (NTSS), the tourism sector is committed to creating a total of 225,000 additional jobs by the year 2020.<\/p>\n

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