#CulturePH - Ant International Launches Alipay+ Voyager: Your Ultimate AI Travel Companion
Travel just got a whole lot smarter with the launch of Alipay+ Voyager, an innovative AI travel companion integrated into digital wallets. Ant International, in collaboration with leading travel partners like Agoda, Fliggy, and Trip.com, introduces this cutting-edge solution to simplify and enhance travel experiences for global consumers.
Alipay+ Voyager combines Ant International's advanced AI capabilities with a vast array of cross-border travel services offered by OTA partners and millions of global merchants within the Alipay+ ecosystem. This single AI interface, embedded in e-wallets and super apps, assists travelers through text or voice in their local language, making itinerary planning, booking, and purchasing in-destination merchant offerings seamless and intuitive.
Launching first on three of Asia’s biggest mobile wallets—Alipay (Chinese mainland), AlipayHK (Hong Kong SAR, China), and GCash (the Philippines)—ahead of the summer travel peak, Alipay+ Voyager is set to roll out to more Alipay+ payment partners throughout 2025.
Alipay+ started as a cross-border payment technology solution, now connecting 36 leading e-wallets and payment apps with 1.7 billion consumer accounts to over 100 million merchants. The Alipay+ Wallet Tech team has been working with e-wallet partners in emerging markets since 2015, developing payment, security, and growth capabilities. Today, the team plans to further expand its AI offerings for different industries on Alipay+ GenAI Cockpit, its main AI platform for fintechs.
Driving Global Connectivity and Growth
The online travel market is expected to grow 10% annually through 2032, with mobile already making up two-thirds of traffic. Travelers, especially Gen Zs, increasingly favor unique, hyperlocal experiences, using mobile-first, all-in-one solutions to uncover their best options.
Alipay+ Voyager offers intelligent end-to-end assistance from one single hub in familiar wallets, providing research, decision, and action support before, during, and after the trip. It seamlessly transitions to local services like ride-hailing, public transport, shopping, dining, and sightseeing. Voyager AI intuitively understands a user’s preferences, proactively solves problems such as flight delays or bad weather, and surfaces hyper-relevant options in real-time before a traveler even asks, all within their home e-wallet. This new growth gateway for merchants and OTAs captures multiple core markets through one easy deployment across the largest regional and global e-wallets.
“Travelers today are using more tech to enhance their trips, and there is a need for the industry to adapt and meet these new and emerging expectations,” said Douglas Feagin, President of Ant International. “By integrating a proactive, always-on AI travel companion within digital wallets that consumers already use frequently, we’re empowering travel and wallet partners with new opportunities to engage travelers in a more relevant, personalised way, through every step of their journey.”
Gil Hazan, Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at Agoda, added, "At Agoda, we are committed to making travel more accessible and seamless for everyone. By integrating our extensive supply network as one of Asia's leading online travel platforms with Alipay+ Voyager's expansive wallet partnerships, we can offer travelers a more convenient and personalized booking experience. This collaboration enables us to reach a broader audience and provide tailored travel solutions that cater to the diverse needs of today's travelers."
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