Greiðslulausnir for chinese tourists in the united kingdom
The icelandic tourism companies and shops can now offer chinese tourists shopping like at home. Greiðsluþjónustufyrirtækið Central Pay offers local companies greiðslulausnir for Alipay and WeChat Pay in the united kingdom but there are two of the largest digital greiðslulausnir on the chinese market.
Snjallgreiðslumarkaðurinn in China is the by far the largest in the world, but in 2016 began payments for about 9,000 billion dollars or the equivalent of about 905.000 billion icelandic krónur-through smartphone þarlendis. For comparison, the american snjallgreiðslumarkaðurinn only about 112 billion dollars in 2016. It can, therefore, say that the Chinese are accustomed at home for can pay anywhere and anytime with your smartphone.
Central Pay was allegedly Indriða Þrastar Gunnlaugsson, director of the Central Pay, founded in December, but he says that things have to move fast since the company was founded. "It started basically so I lived 13 years in Norway and always reads Norwegian viðskiptablöð - in and saw that they were come with these solutions in Norway. I sent a line at the secretary Apay, which is granted there, and it ended thus, that they applied after the fact that I tool the project to me in Iceland.
Then evolve this as wear and happens in a new business. I decide to start a Central Pay and get Ion the Earl stood up with me in the team for that. We are just getting posana and finished the contract in December so that the person is ready to stay awake a few nights,“ says by indriði.
"Right now we are started fully selling our product. We actually rent a posana and take care of the marketing for the company. We register companies into the Alipay-the environment and also offer to assist with kynningarátök on the ground,“ says by indriði but this is all in an electronic environment in clever applications two. "The chinese are not with Facebook and Google but with its own social media and search engines. Baidu is aðalleitarvélin and WeChat most popular samfélagsmiðillinn where in the country,“ adds by indriði, but in clever applications, users can their search to the united states and see what is available before they set off to the country.
In the last year went 86.000 chinese citizens about the Terminal And Eiríksson, according to figures from the website of the tourist board but by indriði says that the forecasts assume that the number will increase in the 108.000 in the year 2018 and the published figures from the chinese government to suggest that 300.000 chinese tourists attending the Usa world in 2020.
a story that appeared in the business newspaper 1. march 2018