A new cooperation between Agoda and Alipay+ was announced today. This agreement will allow Agoda to employ Alipay+ technologies on its platform in order to provide improved customer advantages and incentives. This is in addition to the already existing integration of a number of other digital wallets on Agoda’s platforms, including AlipayHK, GCash, and TrueMoney, which is done via Alipay+.
For the purpose of discount distribution and redemption on Agoda, many Alipay+ marketing solutions, such as Alipay+ Rewards and its in-cashier marketing services, may be used. This enables Agoda to improve its transaction conversion rate, while also allowing travelers to take advantage of great returns in countries and regions such as Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, the Philippines, and Thailand, with the possibility that additional regions will be added in the near future.
The internet travel business has had a rapid revival after the COVID-19 epidemic, which coincides with the recovery of the world economy as a whole. According to statistics provided by Agoda, the number of hotel reservations made across the region’s important nations has climbed almost tenfold since the beginning of the year, and this figure is only likely to continue to rise.
“As we get ready for the tourism season to go back up, we want to provide our clients more options and more leeway in the way they may arrange their trips. The Internet has significantly sped up the process of digitizing travel, and we are dedicated to staying current as we continue to integrate more various ways of payment on a worldwide scale.
We place a high value on our partnership with Alipay+ due to the fact that it enables us to provide additional advantages to the end user by the deft incorporation of innovative payment solutions and rewards programs. This, in turn, enables us to reach out to and target a larger network of potential customers “, said Damien Pfirsch, CCO, Agoda.
Alipay+ is a suite of global cross-border digital payments and marketing solutions that will be introduced by Ant Group in the year 2020. These solutions are designed to enable businesses, particularly small and medium-sized businesses, to process a wide variety of mobile payment methods and reach hundreds of millions of regional and global consumers.
Alipay+ is compatible with a number of other payment systems, including Boost from Malaysia, Rabbit LINE Pay from Thailand, Touch ‘n Go from Malaysia, Kakao Pay from South Korea, Klarna from Europe, and a few more.
“We are glad to reach this new partnership with Agoda to support the recovery of the travel industry from the pandemic,” said Jing Yin, General Manager of Global Strategic Accounts of the International Business Group at Ant Group. “This new partnership will allow us to support the recovery of the travel industry from the pandemic.”
“Alipay+ is devoted to helping businesses reach worldwide customers as a cross-border economic connector by providing new payment and marketing solutions. Additionally, Alipay+ is dedicated to enabling consumers to make payments on global platforms using the digital wallets of their choice.”
As early as 2013, Agoda established a partnership with Ant Group and began integrating Alipay as a payment option for customers in the Chinese market. Agoda began integrating Alipay+ payment solutions in the beginning of 2022 so that it could begin accepting payments from a wider variety of digital wallets around Asia. Agoda, in collaboration with Alipay+, also launched a Brand Day campaign in the Philippines market on July 4th of this year.
About Agoda
Agoda makes it possible for everyone to go anywhere by offering amazing discounts on a global network of 2.7 million hotels and other vacation homes, in addition to flights, airport transfers, and other travel-related services. Both the Agoda website and the Agoda mobile app provide support for a total of 39 different languages, and customer care is accessible around the clock, every day of the week.
Agoda is a subsidiary of Booking Holdings, which trades under the ticker symbol BKNG on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The company has more than 4,800 employees in 32 regions, all of whom are committed to using best-in-class technology to make travel even more convenient.
About Alipay+
Alipay+ provides solutions for worldwide cross-border digital payments and marketing that assist global e-wallets and merchant partners, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises, in providing a higher level of service to their end users and consumers.
Alipay+ is a new service that has been launched by Ant Group, the company that owns and operates Alipay. Alipay is regarded as one of the most reliable and advanced online payment systems available today. It links hundreds of millions of users to retailers and partner financial institutions that provide monetary services as well as digital services that are applicable to day-to-day living.