These days it’s a choice between credit cards and debit cards – and you need an armoury of these to cater for whatever may come your way.
International travel is booming as people take advantage of slightly reduced fares and the northern hemisphere summer. This, of course, raises the perennial question of the best travel finance to use. Travellers’ cheques are old hat; it’s really a choice between credit cards and debit cards – and you need an armoury of these to cater for whatever may come your way.
Next is your choice of debit or credit cards. I’m a big fan of debit cards because you know exactly what you are spending, and you never come home to a large, unexpected credit card bill. Thanks to a reader who travels regularly for business I have discovered what, I think, is the perfect solution: the Wise debit card.Wise offers an extremely efficient international account, offering people the ability to open over 40 different currencies within their account and spend like a local wherever they are, in the local currency every time.
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