CHINESE NEW YEAR OPPORTUNITIES

The Chinese visitor market now is worth about $9.2 billion to the Australian visitor economy. According to Tourism Australia, a significant number of the 1.2 million Chinese visitors to Australia each year are choosing to take their holiday to coincide with the festivities. The two months that straddle the Chinese New Year holiday period, is predicted about 140,000 visitors to upward of 250,000 visitors in 2018.

DESCRIPTION

ConnectX, Target China and Latipay present to you the strategies for expanding tourism options to accommodate the growing number of visitors coming from China. The workshop will give you the practical idea from "finding your customers" to "closing the deal" and "retaining a relationship"

KEY LEARNINGS

• Understanding Australian Chinese tourists market

- Market size and demographics

- How to attract Chinese tourists and leverage their purchasing power

- Practical case studies of companies who have successfully engaged with Chinese tourists in Sydney.

• Lock in Chinese customers

- How can we retain the relationships with Chinese customers

- Celebrities and KOL marketing – trustworthy is the base to earn customers

- Case studies of implementing a social media campaign

• Why Chinese payments matter

- Know your customer (KYC) – it’s not what you think

- Payments as an enabler to drive business

- Alternative payments – a revolution in cross-border business, China leads the way

GUEST SPEAKERS

Kevin Zhang, Business Director, ConnectX

Kevin has extensive experience in helping businesses develop and implement media strategies. With the experience working closely with Australian brands on media planning and buying, he successfully launched the Connect China initiative and set up the exclusive media channel to help brands target the most powerful group of consumers - Chinese tourists - in a highly accurate and cost-effective way. https://www.sydneyconnectx.com/

Peter Christo, General Manager of Latipay Australia

A seasoned business technology professional, Peter’s focus is in the financial services sector, software services for the finance industry including cross boarder remittance and payment systems, banking and financial technology (fintechs) in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry.

Peter established and now heads up LatiPay Australia which specializes in facilitating payments to Australian merchants from Chinese clients. This is a ‘green’ compliant payment channel that adheres to Chinese authorities, and facilitates fast and easy payments to eCommerce. http://www.latipay.net/zh-hans/

Jane Li, General Manager of Target China

Jane has a wealth of experience in marking and related industry. Her thorough understanding of social, cultural and economic aspects of both Australia and China reinforces her capability of generating profits by combining business interests and precisely capturing the needs of market and customers.

With reliable experience and incredible resources, Jane integrates brand marketing, image promotion, celebrity endorsement and movie embedded placement, successfully bringing many Australian companies into Chinese market and helping them establish excellent brand image and loyal customers. http://targetchina.com.au/