This means Alipay can continue to improve its offer to Chinese users, and to develop new features that improve connectivity with merchants overseas. The report also found that 58% of surveyed merchants in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand-some of the most popular destinations for Chinese tourists-said that their foot traffic increased after accepting Alipay, and 56% said they saw an increase in sales. The report states that they paid for 32% of transactions using mobile devices (surpassing cash for the first time in 2018, which was used 30% of the time), and that 90% of them would use mobile payments abroad, if given the option. The 2018 Trends for Mobile Payment in Chinese Outbound Tourism report issued jointly by Nielsen and Alipay found that 69% of Chinese tourists who travelled overseas during the last 12 months used mobile payments while on vacation. See why-and how-an increasing number of overseas merchants are embracing Chinese mobile payments. Outbound Chinese tourism is a powerful market, and the world is taking notice. The same thing is true when they travel abroad they expect these methods of payment to be available everywhere they go.

Chinese people choose digital wallets over credit cards to pay for goods and services, but they also rely on super-apps like Alipay and WeChat Pay to manage every aspect of their lives. Mobile payment solutions are ubiquitous in China.

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