With the coming of the Spring Festival, a peak period for overseas tour will occur in China. Recently, Industrial Bank (IB) releases many preferential activities related to overseas tour, providing credit card customers with diversified tour routes, a variety of shopping concessions and a wide coverage of cooperative merchants, with a view to bringing customers with better services and user experience.
Human-oriented tour routes
It is winter now, so Southeast Asia is a preferred option for travel in winter. For this reason, IB Credit Card offers well-chosen routes named “Suixingyou” (interest-guided tour) to Southeast Asia, designing the tour routes to such resorts as Phuket Island, Singapore, Langkawi, Sabah, and Bali for a period of five to seven days. Customers may choose to depart from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou or Shenzhen, fully experiencing the different customs and cultures of Southeast Asia and enjoying the supreme fun of travel. It is reported that, from now on till February 28, customers can enjoy the discount up to RMB 200/person by dialing the exclusive hotline 40066-40066 of Mangocity for “Suixingyou” to book the designated tour routes to Southeast Asia.
Considering the travel needs of golf fans, IB also launched the unique program of “golf tour”. After logging on the homepage of the Credit Card Center of IB, customers may click the “channel for golf booking” at the upper right corner to see different tour routes both at home and abroad. Centering on excellent golf courses, these routes that integrates leisure and vacation can be booked at a price far below the market price. For instance, the offer for “value-added tour to Sabah, Malaysia – four days and three nights with three games” is nearly 20% lower than the market price. While indulging in playing golf, customers can also appreciate the beautiful scene of Sabah.
High concessions for shopping abroad
Considering various shopping needs of customers traveling abroad, IB Credit Card has offered a variety of preferential activities for shopping abroad. For instance, the bank recently launched the activity of card-swiped amount refund for overseas consumption. From now on till February 28, a customer whose total “point-based” overseas trading amount with a platinum card reaches RMB 30,000, he or she may enjoy the card-swiped amount refund equivalent to 3% of the one with the greatest amount of every five transactions; if it reaches 100,000, he or she may be refunded by 4% of the one with the greatest amount of every five transactions. A customer whose total “point-based” overseas trading amount with a gold or common credit card (including the affiliated card) reaches RMB 20,000, he or she may enjoy the card-swiped amount refund equivalent to 2% of the one with the greatest amount of every five transactions.
Additionally with regard to the tour to Taiwan, from now on till February 28, a customer who collects three sales slips for consumption by swiping IB credit card in Taiwan, with each transaction amounting to NTD 1,500 or more, he or she can exchange the three slips for a scratch card at the service outlet designated by IB at Taipei Taoyuan Airport or Taipei Songshan Airport. The award for the scratch card is coupon worth NTD 150-500 for designated airport merchants, which can be used directly as cash.
Surprising concessions in cooperation with merchants
With the coming of the Spring Festival, Hong Kong, long known as the “paradise for shopping”, will witness another peak period of “shopping spree” by credit card holders from the Chinese Mainland. To meet the demands of these cardholders, IB Credit Card, in cooperation with a number of Hong Kong merchants, loses no time to launch the serial activity of “Special Offer at Hong Kong”. From now on till February 28, any customer who consumes a total of HKD 888 or more in a day at Shatin Shop and Tai Po Shop of YATA HK with an IB credit card may exchange the printed invoices and card-swiping stubs of the day for a cash coupon worth HKD 100 at the customer service office. A customer buying any designated product at any outlet of “Halewinner” and “Unique Timepieces” under Halewinner Group can enjoy the preferential discount of 5% based on the purchase price, and immediate concessions upon the given single-transaction amount, e.g. deduction of HKD 300 for the consumption amount of HKD 10,000.
In Taiwan, IB, in collaboration with China UnionPay, provides a variety of consumption concession or gift programs at 250 famous shops with regard to such themes as general merchandise, hotel, golf, hot spring, food and cosmetology, including Formosa Optical, Taiwan Spirit, the Westin Taipei, Tienlai Spring Hotel, Dacome Golf, North Bay Golf & Country Club, BVLGARI Wedding Dress Flagship Shop, Howard Hotel, and iStone, etc.