Sky-High Benefits: Emirates and Tap Payments Set to Transform SME Travel with Exclusive Rewards Partnership

Published May 9th, 2024 - 07:07 GMT

Emirates and Tap Payments Set to Transform SME Travel with Exclusive Rewards Partnership

Highlights

The strategic agreement was signed by Dina Al Herais, Emirates’ Vice President Commercial Products, Business and Leisure, and Anwar Marafi, Head of Value Added Services, at Tap Payments. Also present Nabil Sultan, Executive Vice President, Passenger Sales

SMEs can now easily convert their Tap Payments Rewards into Emirates Business Rewards, enhancing their travel experiences and supporting business operations across diverse destinations.

Dubai, May 8, 2024: Emirates and Tap Payments have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the sidelines of the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai, ushering in a new era of convenience, savings, and growth opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the MENA region.

Anwar Marafi, Head of Value-Added Services for Tap Payments, expressed enthusiasm about the collaboration, stating,

"We are excited and privileged to partner with Emirates, the world's most iconic airline, to offer our SME customers a seamless way to convert their Tap Payments Rewards into Emirates Business Rewards. This collaboration empowers our valued customers to grow their businesses through travel opportunities and showcases our commitment to driving innovative products and supporting businesses across the MENA region."

The initiative offers a straightforward and quick conversion process, enabling small businesses to start benefiting from travel opportunities that can help grow their businesses.

Through this strategic alliance, Emirates and Tap Payments aim to reach, engage, and attract Tap's extensive SME customer base across the region, with the objective of enrolling these SMEs in the Emirates Business Rewards Program by 2025.

This partnership will unlock a range of benefits designed to enhance the travel experience for SMEs. From easy online booking management to complimentary enrollment in the Emirates Business Rewards program, they’ll have the opportunity to accumulate points on all business travel, providing substantial flexibility and cost savings.

Stay tuned for more details on how your business can benefit from this innovative partnership as we gear up for exciting developments in the near future.

For more information, Visit: www.tap.company

Background Information

Tap Payments

Managing your money is no small task, after all.

But just because we all have to manage our money that doesn’t mean we all necessarily like managing our money… and it doesn’t mean that we’re always the best at it, either. And yet, as business owners and regular consumers alike, we all have to deal with the maddening work of managing our money—every single day, no matter what. You’re probably asking yourself the same questions we were. Isn’t that why we have technology? Weren’t we supposed to be living better and better… not more and more stressed out?

That’s exactly where Tap founders found themselves, once upon a time in the year 2014. Or rather, that’s where they found most Middle Eastern business owners and consumers. They found that, for the world’s leading population of young, wealthy, online savvy, technologically advanced users to still have problems buying and selling things online in their part of the world… Something wasn’t clicking. We live in a world where we didn’t have to deal with drawn out set-up procedures, complicated systems, or inflexible payment methods anymore… but somehow we still were.
We knew there was a better way. And that way was Tap. So, Tap was born in May 2013, in Kuwait—and with it a whole new era of doing business online in the Middle East. Now businesses could finally bill, accept, receive, and make payments online… easier, faster, and smoother than ever before. Payment clearances that used to take days and weeks to setup, now took just a few hours. Integrating local businesses with the global e-commerce platforms became a real possibility.

Now that Tap is around, managing money—and managing it well—became a whole lot cooler.

Company Profile

Tap Payments

Managing your money is no small task, after all.

But just because we all have to manage our money that doesn’t mean we all necessarily like managing our money… and it doesn’t mean that we’re always the best at it, either. And yet, as business owners and regular consumers alike, we all have to deal with the maddening work of managing our money—every single day, no matter what. You’re probably asking yourself the same questions we were. Isn’t that why we have technology? Weren’t we supposed to be living better and better… not more and more stressed out?

Company Profile

Emirates Airline

The Emirates story started in 1985 when we launched operations with just two aircraft.

Today, we fly the world’s biggest fleets of Airbus A380s and Boeing 777s, offering our customers the comforts of the latest and most efficient wide-body aircraft in the skies.

We inspire travelers around the world with our growing network of worldwide destinations, industry leading inflight entertainment, regionally inspired cuisine, and world-class service. Read on to find out more.