Card tours: where and how do tourists draw up cards of foreign banks?
Tour operators told where to go for a foreign card and how much such a trip costs.
According to experts, as flight prices stabilize, the demand for card tours may revive again in the coming weeks due to interest from winterers.
Now the leader in the segment of card tours is Armenia. A trip for a card will cost from 50-55 thousand rubles. for two (excluding the cost of air travel). Card tours to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Belarus - their cost - from 30-35 thousand rubles. for two without a road.
Allowed options outside the CIS: tours to Turkey (from 100 thousand rubles for two). There are options to travel to Serbia. It will take about three weeks to issue a bank card in Belgrade.
In the autumn, Russians have new reasons for issuing Visa and Mastercard bank cards abroad: in Turkey and other countries, they stopped working with the Russian payment system Mir.
Demand for card tours increased by about 20%. “Customers are used to paying with plastic in hotels or shopping. Traveling with cash is not always convenient.
Foreign Visa and Mastercard are needed for business or other expenses abroad: work, training, treatment. Having a foreign card sometimes becomes a prerequisite for obtaining a visa to a number of EU countries.
Source: ria, photo: unsplash