Tourism Montreal Partners with OTT Financial for Alipay and WeChat Pay infrastructure
Canadian financial services institution OTT Financial has established a partnership with Tourism Montreal.
According to a September 18th, 2017 media release, Tourism Montreal has officially signed a partnership with OTT Financial, in order to introduce Alipay and WeChat Pay to local businesses.
The goal, according to Andrée-Anne Pelletier, Tourism Montreal’s manager of corporation public relations, is to “improve the travel experience for Chinese people visiting Montreal.”
Alipay is the Alibaba Group’s mobile payment software. WeChat Pay is the mobile payment service that’s part of Tencent’s WeChat social media software. Together, Alipay and WeChat Pay are the two most popular mobile payment services in China, boasting a combined total of over 960 million users.
“Tourism Montreal will facilitate the coordination between OTT Financial and all of our members and partners,” said Pelletier, in an email to MobileSyrup.
In the same release, Yves Lalumiere, president and CEO of Tourism Montreal, said that “this partnership has the potential to trigger increased tourist spending among Chinese visitors to the city.”
An approximate total of 123,000 Chinese tourists are expected to visit Montreal by the end of 2017.
“Montreal’s tourism industry stands to benefit greatly by catering to this fast-growing customer base,” said Lalumiere, in the same release.
Earlier this year, OTT Financial established a similar partnership with Tourism Toronto.
About Tourism Montreal
Tourism Montreal is a private, non-profit organization, founded in 1919 and incorporated in 1924. Tourism Montreal is compromised of members from Montreal’s tourism industry, who share the common goal of promoting Montreal as premier travel destination for tourists, convention delegates and business travelers. Tourism Montreal leads the regional effort to promote Montreal’s hospitality industry, all while creating business opportunities for members and partners, steering urban tourism development, encouraging new investments in sectors that need it, and ensuring that the various development stakeholders integrate tourism-related issues into their planning. For more about Tourism Montreal, visit Mtl.org.
About OTT Pay
OTT Pay is a global fintech payment processor company that is redefining the payment industry through the delivery of Alternative Payment Methods that embrace the diversity of our changing culture. As an official payment service and marketing partner of WeChat and Alipay, OTT Pay is a leading platform that seamlessly connects Canadian merchants to Chinese consumers. OTT Pay has partnered with Tourism Toronto and Tourism Montreal to promote Canada-China trade and tourism. OTT Pay Inc. is a member of the OTT Group of Companies, a diversified financial services group that has been delivering trusted financial services to the Chinese-Canadian community since 2006. The Group provides services in securities distribution, investment brokerage, asset management, and foreign exchange. For more information about OTT Pay, please visit www.ottpay.com