{"id":18139,"date":"2024-02-10T13:54:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T13:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=18139"},"modified":"2024-02-10T13:54:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T13:54:46","slug":"should-you-get-wechat-for-exclusive-hotel-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/02\/10\/should-you-get-wechat-for-exclusive-hotel-offers\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you get Wechat for exclusive hotel offers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

China is a big and important consumer market for many businesses, and the hospitality sector is no differrent. In fact, all major hotel groups including Hilton, IHG, Marriott and Accor treat Greater China as an individual segment, separate from Asia Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, they occasionally publish exclusive offers for just members in Greater China. You don’t actually need to be residing in China to participate, but the main hurdle is you can only take part via Wechat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wechat was at the beginning an instant messenger similar to Whatsapp. However it’s now grown into a massive one-stop shop where you can make payment, buy takeaways \/ cinema tickets, and book hotels. Many of these are implemented in the form of “mini programs”, which are apps inside the Wechat app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aforementioned exclusive offers are delivered in such mini programs. I just got 200 Hyatt points by clicking a button from Hyatt’s Chinese New Year promotion.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And 200 IHG points last week from a similar offer.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Wechat isn’t very user friendly to non-Chinese speakers though. If I remember correctly you need two existing users to verify your identity when you create a new account. Although the app has multi-language support, those mini programs are available in Chinese only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s one mini program called Badazhou <\/em>that I love and use a lot. It is a travel agency that’s automated their integration with Virtuoso, IHG Luxury and Lifestyle, Marriott Stars, Hilton Impresario plus many other exclusive hotel programs. Booking such rates has been made so much easier, as you don’t need to email or call anyone for anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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