In the tournament’s first five days, fans from the United States are the biggest foreign spenders, followed by China and Mexico respectively

MOSCOW-Saturday 30 June 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Visa (NYSE: V), the Official Payment Services Partner of FIFA, today released an analysis of foreign travellers’ spending during opening days of 2018 FIFA World Cup™. The results found that in the 11 Russian host cities of the tournament, approximately one in every five (17 percent) purchases with Visa used contactless payment technology, including smartphones, bracelets and rings. In the stadiums themselves, the share of contactless payments was 54 percent, inclusive of purchases made by fans from Russia and abroad.

On average, across the 11 host cities, Visa cardholders spent 3,575 rubles (approximately $56.65)1 per transaction, with fans from the United States spending the most – followed by China and Mexico in second and third, res ... Read more »