The popularity of mobile internet has subverted the traditional tourism economy, more consumers feel the convenience of "wireless reservation" when they travel, and use the smart phone to book tickets, hotels, tickets and other travel products anytime and anywhere. Recently, travel booking class application where to travel app announces new fingerprint payment function, support IOS8 Apple device with Touch ID function.
After the IPhone6 press conference, the public opinion is mixed, but there is a consensus, that is, Apple Pay mobile payment is the biggest bright spot, known as the launch of the most jobs spirit of the product. Market research firm Forrester Studies predicts that by 2017 the mobile payment market could grow by more than 3 times times to about 90 billion dollars (about 552.8 billion yuan). August 8, the latest statistics released by the consultation, the two quarter of this year, China's third-party mobile payment market volume amounted to 1,383,460,000,000 yuan.
As the mobile payment market blowout, Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu and other internet giants have joined the war, mobile payment into a new era. As the world's largest Chinese travel platform to where the network, recently released a new version of the client first in the industry to open fingerprint payment function, become the first access to touch ID API Third-party applications. Where to go? The net tells the reporter, enters September, where to go the proportion which the wireless end Book hotel has exceeded the total station more than 50%, far surpasses the international mainstream on-line traveling website, the wireless Terminal domestic ticket output daily also more than 100,000 tickets. Where are we going? Wireless has achieved 300% growth for four consecutive quarters, and a large number of users are moving from the PC to the mobile end.
Where are we going? The first to open the fingerprint payment, the purpose is to provide mobile users with the most secure and efficient payment method. According to statistics, internet users have an average of 26 accounts, 6.5 passwords, each day need to log in with a password 8 times. "The traditional password is digital, and the fingerprint password nature has unique, portable, life-long invariance and other characteristics, security is higher, but also eliminates the user to remember the password or even forget the password trouble." "Where to go wireless general manager Zhang told reporters, where users can travel in the app bound a bank card set to" fingerprint exclusive card ", when paid by the iOS system for fingerprint identification and verification, after the adoption of the payment request can be initiated. At present, the wireless terminal ticket, hotel, train ticket business has supported the use of fingerprint payment.
"Although where to go fingerprint payment is currently only supported IOS8, but this is only the beginning, will gradually in more systems and more smartphones to achieve, the future will also online under the further extension, to open up more offline entity services. "Where to go net CEO Zhungchengsu has portrayed the ultimate tourism industry as a" matrix of hackers ", a pure software system that connects all consumers at one end and controls all tourism resources. And the fingerprint information authentication may apply in the identity information docking and eliminates the hotel registration, the airport check-in and so on link, improves the user experience. Some experts believe that to go where such enterprises to promote fingerprint payment, will set a new benchmark for online tourism market, is expected to drive the development of related industrial chain.