Dubai Duty Free has announced its partnership with Alipay+ in order to leverage its tools for optimising the shopping experience of international visitors.
Following this announcement, clients and consumers from South Korea, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Mongolia, and Italy, as well as the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, and Macao will be enabled to shop for the desired products while using their home payment applications at duty-free stores from Dubai and AI Maktoum. In addition, users will benefit from an optimised travel and checkout experience by being enabled to access promotions as well.
Through this collaboration, Alipay+ e-wallet and bank partners that are currently accepted across the UAE include: Alipay, AlipayHK, MPay (Macao SAR, China), GCash from the Philippines, Kakao Pay, Naver Pay and Toss Pay from South Korea, OCBC from Singapore, TrueMoney from Thailand, Hipay from Mongolia, as well as Tinaba from Italy.
The vast majority of international customers will be enabled to pay for their taxi fares and to make cashless payments at big malls and airports with their home e-wallets, as well as banking apps in home currencies. After scanning the QR code at the merchants’ end or pulling out their individual QR code, the transaction is expected to take place in seconds and its details to be shown in clients’ home digital applications in real-time.
