Only Visa bank cards will be accepted in the official store of the Olympic Games, planned in France next summer, as well as on the test sites. Cash payment is also tolerated.
The gold medal is already promised to this brand in the aisles of the Paris Olympic Games in 2024. Indeed, only Visa bank cards will be accepted in the official store of the Olympic Games, scheduled for France next summer.
Opened last November at Les Halles Paris, this place of sale also allows payment in cash. Insufficient for some, equipped with a Mastercard: We lose up to ten customers a day, it can be quite a lot at the end of the month, tells a salesman at Parisian despite the installation of information panels. It was not against not the case for buying tickets on the ticketing site.
In the daily, the French organizers of the 2024 Olympics confirm that Visa is the exclusive card payment solution for sites operated by Paris 2024 such as official stores or competition sites. In addition to the shop, Visa will also be in full force on the competition sites where it will therefore be necessary to bring the appropriate bank card or cash. At the London Olympics in 2012, this was already the case.
3.4 billion Visa cards worldwide
Premium partner of the Games since 1986, Visa is accustomed to this type of privileges and the official site of the Olympic Games boasts of the 3.4 billion Visa cards available worldwide, accepted in more than 200 countries and territories and which can be used in more than 61 million points of sales.
In 2018, Visa and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) signed a partnership through 2032. Today’s announcement shows both the strength of our long-standing partnership with Visa, a founding member of the global program TOP, and the Olympic Movement’s long-term appeal to large global corporations, said Tsunekazu Takeda, Chairman of the IOC’s Marketing Commission. Since 2007, Visa has also been a main FIFA partner for the organization of the football World Cups.
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