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What are the benefits of taking UnionPay cards?

  • Attract new customers and give existing customers more flexibility on a wider range of accepted cards.
  • The UK is expecting a boost in visits from China in 2019, with Visit Britain indicating that bookings are up 31 per cent from January to June this year compared to the same period in 20182.
  • Visitors from China are some of the UK’s highest spenders, spending on average £2,059 each per visit, more than three times the all-market visitor average2.

1 Internal UnionPay data, February 2019.

2 Spending statistic supplied by Visit Britain, 2018