SINGAPORE, 16 January 2025: Booking.com and Antom, a merchant payment and digitisation service under Ant International, introduce a strategic partnership to improve payment options across key Asian markets.
It enables Booking.com to unlock business opportunities across Asia — Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and the Philippines. Each market presents distinct challenges, including varying payment methods, currencies and regulatory frameworks. Antom navigates the complexity through its extensive payment channel partnerships in over 40 countries.
Booking.com, through its partnership with Antom will make over forty payment options available over time, including online banking, bank transfers, digital wallets and local card payments.
Key mobile wallets such as AlipayHK (Hong Kong SAR, China), Boost (Malaysia), GCash (the Philippines), GrabPay (Singapore), Kakao Pay (South Korea), Naver Pay (South Korea), Touch’n Go eWallet (Malaysia) and TrueMoney (Thailand) will be the first to be introduced as new payment methods.
