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UnionPay International partners with Trip.com

Monday 18 December 2023 10:22 CET | News

UnionPay International has partnered with Trip.com to provide global travellers with enhanced payment experiences. 

 

As per the official press release, the collaboration covers all major transaction currencies on Trip.com's global sites accepting UnionPay online payment, including Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and other key travel markets of Trip.com.

UnionPay International has partnered with Trip.com to provide global travellers with enhanced payment experiences.

 

This partnership with Trip.com is intended to help further meet the payment needs of UnionPay cardholders in major markets. It is also set to further enhance UPI's international presence in the global online travel agency (OTA) market in the long term, strengthening UPI's global payment network expansion. 

Trip.com currently has operations in more than 200 countries and regions covering more than 1.2 million hotels offering guests a wide range of accommodation options. It also has a flight network of more than 2 million individual routes connecting over 5,000 cities globally. 

In line with customers' travel trends and needs, UPI aims to connect the global travel industry with simplified payment services. Reportedly, since 2023, UnionPay International's airline and OTA traffic has increased by 81% and 153%, respectively. This latest collaboration expands the online acceptance for more than 200 million UnionPay cardholders outside mainland China. In addition, within the Hong Kong market, local cardholders can benefit from enhanced convenience by leveraging the integration of the Hong Kong version of UnionPay App, and the enablement of transactions in Hong Kong Dollars.  

About UnionPay International 

UnionPay International focuses on the international business of UnionPay, a global payment network that serves a large number of cardholder base. Collaborating with over 2,500 partners globally, UnionPay International has enabled card acceptance in 181 countries and regions with issuance in 79 countries and regions. Outside Mainland China, UnionPay is accepted at over 38 million merchants and 1.76 million ATMs. 

About Trip.com 

Trip.com is an international one-stop travel service provider, available in 24 languages across 39 countries and regions in 35 local currencies. Trip.com has an extensive hotel and flight network consisting of more than 1.2 million hotels and flights from over 510 airlines covering 3,400 airports in 220 countries and regions around the globe.  

Trip.com's 24/7 multilingual customer service, as well as additional centres in Scotland, Japan, and South Korea, with the intention to create the best travel experience for its millions of customers worldwide. 

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Keywords: travel payments, cross-border payments, online payments, transactions , partnership
Categories: Payments & Commerce
Companies: UnionPay
Countries: Asia
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