Alipay ‘Tap’ Transactions Jump Nearly 40% During Mid-Autumn and National Day Holidays

The holiday data points to contactless payments moving from novelty to habit in China's consumer economy, with the inbound-tourist surge suggesting Alipay's interoperability push is finally converting foreign visitors. That matters for merchants and payment infrastructure providers positioning around tourism corridors, where acceptance and check-in campaigns now function as demand-generation tools. Whether the inbound momentum persists beyond a holiday window — and whether it extends past the eight campaign cities — is the open question.