Barclaycard, the U.K. credit card and debit card payment processor, announced Thursday (March 14) it inked a new agreement with Alipay, the Chinese digital payment service operated by Alibaba’s payment affiliate Ant Financial. In a press release, Barclaycard said that with the deal, retailers will be...
Barclaycard, the U.K. payment company, announced Tuesday (March 5) that it has inked a new partnership with UnionPay International, a unit of China UnionPay. According to a report in Finextra, citing Barclaycard, 110,000 U.K. merchants will be able to accept UnionPay under the deal. The...
According to the U.S. Commerce Department, 2.97 million Chinese nationals visited the U.S. in 2016 (the last year for which data is available), spending a net total of $333 billion. That’s roughly $7,200 per person per U.S visit, according to the U.S. Travel Association. It’s also a number...
When Los Angeles first began its efforts to market to international tourists in 2006, China wasn’t much of a consideration. With all of the nations that sent tourists to L.A., China didn’t even make the top 10 a little over a decade ago. But as...
March 20, 2018
According to the U.S. Commerce Department, 2.97 million Chinese nationals visited the U.S. in 2016 (the last year for which data is available), spending a net total of $333 billion. That’s roughly $7,200 per person per U.S visit, according to the U.S. Travel Association. It’s also a number that is only expected to grow, as both the number […]
August 26, 2022
Since the start of the pandemic in 2020, Chinese tourists — once the darlings of luxury spending on European high streets — have been such a scarce sight it’s causing retailers to revamp strategies going forward. European retailers have had to consider how to cater to locals rather than tourists. In the 10 years before […]
March 14, 2019
Barclaycard, the U.K. credit card and debit card payment processor, announced Thursday (March 14) it inked a new agreement with Alipay, the Chinese digital payment service operated by Alibaba’s payment affiliate...
March 05, 2019
Barclaycard, the U.K. payment company, announced Tuesday (March 5) that it has inked a new partnership with UnionPay International, a unit of China UnionPay. According to a report in Finextra,...
February 16, 2018
WeChat Pay, the mobile payment arm of China’s WeChat, is running promotions to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year, also referred to as the Spring Festival. Mobile Payments Today reported...
