EVEN without a credit card, tourists from one Asian country can buy online tickets for attractions in another – thanks to payment platform GTPay, which lets them use their local digital wallet. A tourist from Indonesia could use OVO, for instance, while one from Singapore can use PayNow or GrabPay.

Home-grown digital ticketing company GlobalTix came up with the idea of GTPay last year, during the pandemic.

Travel was one of the hardest-hit industries, but the two brothers who co-founded GlobalTix refused to slow down. As chief executive officer Chan Chee Chong put it: “We said, ‘Let us imagine the future of travel.’”