Mobile pay encouraging tourists to spend more

Chinese travelers are spending more money than ever on overseas trips, with 60 percent of visitors to Europe identifying mobile payment as their first choice, a new study says.

A Nielsen and Alipay report, titled 2018 Trends of Chinese Mobile Payment in Outbound Tourism, finds that the average budget for Chinese tourists traveling abroad increased to more than $6,026 per person in 2018.

Some 69 percent of tourists used mobile payment when spending overseas, up 4 percent from the previous year.