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  • First overseas transport card launched for Chinese Tourists

    First overseas transport card launched for Chinese Tourists

    To make outbound travel more seamless for Chinese tourists, NETS and Alipay launched the first overseas transport card that can be purchased right off Alipay’s mobile wallet, which has 190 million active users across China. Tourists can now buy the Alipay FlashPay cards before flying out of China, the two firms announced in a media.

    World Tourism Cities Federation data specifies that transport is a top concern for Chinese tourists, who prefer travelling by public transport overseas.

    Customers who purchase the card on Alipay will be sent an e-voucher, which is presented at designated counters in Changi Airport to enable collection of the card. The Alipay Flashpay card costs $50 – with a card cost of $5 and a stored value of $45. Customers can buy up to five Alipay FlashPay cards, and those who redeem the card by March 31 next year will get a $20 voucher from Changi Airport Group (CAG).

    Mr. Ang Sok Hong, Nets’ senior vice-president of sales, said, the co-brand transit card aims to make trip planning and outbound travel easy for tourists. “Given Alipay’s popularity among Chinese consumers and its volume of traffic, it was only natural for us to partner with Alipay to see how we could make outbound travel more seamless for Chinese tourism.”

    According to, Mr. Peh Ke-Wei, vice-president of passenger development at CAG, such collaborations can boost passenger traffic. China has “consistently been the second-largest visitor market for the past five years, with some 2.27 million Chinese tourists visiting Singapore in 2013.”

  • Greece tourism plans honeymoon packages for Chinese travellers

    Greece tourismWith every country making special packages for Chinese tourists The Greek National Tourism Organization (EOT) has prepared special honeymoon packages to increase the flow of the Chinese tourists.

    Five trips to Greece with all expenses covered were won during a special showing of the Chinese movie entitled “Love in Beijing.” The movie shooting took place in Santorini, Greece with the support of the Greek National Tourism Organization. The movie premier was attended by 2,500,000 people, a new record for the Chinese box office.

    With the tourism Minister of Greece Olga Kefalogianni meeting with the Ambassador of China to Athens, Zou Xiaoli, and the talks of creating “Task Force” for the increase of Greek-Chinese cooperation in tourism has already been established.

    During the meeting, Olga Kefalogianni made reference to major reforms that have been carried out in Greece in the past two years and expressed the country’s wish to further strengthen the Greek-Chinese relations in the tourism industry.

    Furthermore, it was agreed that a Greek-Chinese Symposium will be organized to deal with tourism issues. The Symposium will be held in Athens in 2014 and representatives from the field of tourism in Greece and China will be participating.

    During the meeting Olga Kefalogianni and Zou Xiaoli discussed the granting of visas to Chinese people who want to visit Greece. In regards to this matter, the Greek Minister of Tourism said that the government is working on speeding up and simplifying the visa procedures for visitors from third countries.

    The Chinese tourists will be made to feel at home with special signs posted in the Chinese language in the Greek tourist sites and tourist guide certification for Chinese people is also being considered.