Shanghai Initiates Blockchain-powered 'Cultural Tourism'

Shanghai’s busy central Jing’an District will make use of a WeChat platform to issue blockchain-powered “cultural tourism” vouchers that can be redeemed for book purchases, streaming services, cinema tickets and more. Per China Email, the vouchers will be distributed on a WeChat widget platform operated by the district’s Cultural Tourism Bureau. The district is

Shanghai’s Jing'an District issues blockchain-based discount coupons

Jing’an Culture and Tourism Bureau is issuing blockchain-based discount coupons using its WeChat mini-program. The Jing’an District of Shanghai has started offering blockchain-based discount coupons.  Local news outlet Shine reported that the district will issue the coupons using one of WeChat’s mini-programs operated by the Jing’an Culture and Tourism Bureau.  WeChat mini-programs are smaller sub-applications built within the WeChat ecosystem to offer several online services like e-commerce, music and video streaming and translation.  The tourism bureau has integrated blockchain to their WeChat mini-program to adjust the number of coupons in circulation and the validity period of each of these by analyzing how people are using them.

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