Project Overview
A national platform for smart tourism payments, digital wallet, smart kiosks and a tourism super-app — creating a smart, secure, integrated and exceptional experience for tourists and visitors to Oman.
Beyond a payment app or kiosk device: a complete tourism ecosystem connecting payments, tourism information, bookings, maps, transport and smart recommendations with hotels, museums, restaurants and heritage sites — built with bank-grade security, encryption and Central Bank of Oman compliance.
Key Components
- Tourist digital wallet & multi-currency card payments
- Smart kiosks at airports, malls & heritage sites
- Tourism super-app: bookings, maps, transport, offers
- Merchant network: hotels, restaurants, museums, tours
- BI dashboard & tourism analytics for authorities
- Fraud monitoring, encryption & CBO compliance
Strategic Objectives
- 1Digitize the complete visitor payment journey in Oman
- 2Increase tourist spending through seamless payments
- 3Provide authorities with real-time tourism data
- 4Support Omani merchants with digital tools
- 5Build a national FinTech champion in tourism
Team We Are Building
- Government & Central Bank liaison manager
- Omani legal counsel — FinTech & payments regulation
- FinTech product managers & backend engineers
- Mobile developers (Flutter/React Native)
- Cybersecurity & fraud prevention specialists
- Merchant acquisition & partnerships team
Investment Perspective
Transaction-fee revenue model with strong unit economics
Oman tourism growth drives transaction volumes
Government alignment: smart tourism under Vision 2040
Data monetization & merchant services upside
Regional expansion potential across GCC destinations
