Journey platform Journey.com has partnered with purchase now pay later (BNPL) supplier Atome to supply BNPL choices to its prospects throughout the area, beginning first in Singapore.
The partnership is Journey.com’s first-ever regional partnership with a BNPL platform and is anticipated to develop to different markets within the Asia Pacific area in 2023.
Travellers in Singapore can now pay for his or her flights and lodging on Journey.com’s cell app or web site by means of versatile deferred funds by choosing Atome as a checkout choice.
A latest research by journey tech firm Amadeus discovered that 95 per cent of Singaporean surveyed stated they might think about BNPL providers to fund their journey, greater than the worldwide common of 75 per cent.
This determine additionally beats the 57 per cent of these polled who stated they could use a bank card. Singaporeans even have essentially the most urge for food for worldwide journey — forward of German, French and US shoppers.
Journey.com at the moment carries over 1.2 million accommodations and flights from over 480 airways in 200 international locations. Its app was the tenth most downloaded OTA app globally within the first half of 2022 in line with Apptopia.
Edmund Weng
“This new regional partnership with Atome is well timed with the year-end holidays developing and we look ahead to making journey extra inexpensive and accessible to much more of our prospects in Asia,”
stated Edmund Weng, Regional Director of Journey.com.
William Yang
“We’re actually excited to be Journey.com’s first-ever regional BNPL companion, and to help the put up Covid-19 journey restoration growth by enabling travellers to have versatile and handy cost choices to guide their much-awaited vacation or enterprise journeys,”
stated William Yang, Regional Head of Industrial at Atome.
