• Visa issuers can offer their European customers access to a range of exclusive privileges and discounts • In 2016 over 2 billion people passed through Europe’s airports with the global duty-free industry expected to grow to approximately US$67bn by 2020 from an estimated US$45.7bn in 2016
Headline findings: - Overall spending falls at quickest rate since September 2013 (-2.0% year on year) - The high street suffers from the second-steepest drop since April 2012 (-5.0%) - Clothing & Footwear sees record decline in spend (-9.0%) - Hotels, Restaurants & Bars show resilience, reporting growth of +3.2%
Visa has today announced its global team Visa roster for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The roster is comprised of over 40 Olympians and Paralympians from 17 countries, including British snowboarder, Billy Morgan and speed skater, Elise Christie.
• New campaign launches in partnership with the British Olympic Association • Everything Counts platform enables the British public to share the stories of athletes on the road to being part of Team GB • Athletes Adam Gemili, Adam Peaty, Claudia Fragapane and Elinor Barker signed as Team Visa Ambassadors
London, 21 March 2016 – Visa Europe today launches “Cashfree and Proud” on 21 March, a new campaign telling cardholders they can make a Visa contactless payment with confidence and feel liberated from the need to carry cash.
The campaign, which runs in the UK from March to May, recognises and harnesses that sense of achievement people feel when they begin to use contactless and realise that the
Visa Europe today unveiled the new Visa / Apple Pay “Ready” campaign to run across broadcast and social media during the coming two months.
Visa Europe is a payments technology business owned and operated by member banks and other payment service providers from 38 countries.
Visa Europe is at the heart of the payments ecosystem providing the services and infrastructure to enable millions of European consumers, businesses and governments to make electronic payments. Its members are responsible for issuing cards, signing up retailers and deciding cardholder and retailer fees. Visa Europe is also the largest transaction processor in Europe, responsible for processing more than 18 billion transactions annually.
There are more than 500m Visa cards in Europe, while €1 in every €6 spent in Europe is on a Visa card. Total expenditure on Visa cards exceeds €2 trillion annually, with €1.5 trillion spent at point-of-sale.
Visa Europe is an independent business with an exclusive, irrevocable and perpetual licence to use the Visa brand in Europe. Visa Europe works in partnership with Visa Inc. to enable global Visa payments in more than 200 countries and territories.
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