Tencent Partners with Maldives Tourism Board for WeChat Pay Expansion

Tencent announced today that the Maldives Tourism Board and WeChat Pay have jointly signed a three-year memorandum of cooperation in Shanghai. The two sides will work together to promote more merchants in the Maldives to accept WeChat Pay, providing more convenient payment experiences for Chinese tourists.

According to the introduction, some places like airport duty-free stores, the popular restaurant SalaThai, Banyan Tree Vabbinfaru, Velaa Private Island, and Cheval Blanc Randheli Island have already supported WeChat Pay. If things go smoothly, by the end of the year, WeChat Pay can also be used in 8,000 merchants.

A note by TapTechNews: The Maldives is located about 500 kilometers in the Indian Ocean off the southwest of Sri Lanka and India. It belongs to the South Asian region and is an archipelagic country in South Asia with an area of 298 square kilometers (about 115 square miles).

The Maldives is composed of about 1,192 coral atolls in 26 atolls that are about 820 kilometers (about 510 miles) long from north to south and 120 kilometers (about 75 miles) wide. About 200 islands are inhabited, and many of them have been developed into tourist areas, attracting tourists from all over the world.