Foreigners' credit card spending surges nearly 10-fold in June from 2023 level: report

Credit card spending by foreigners in June surged to nearly 10 times the level from three years earlier amid a sharp increase in overseas visitors, a report showed Tuesday. According to a report by Korea Credit Data, the monthly index of revenues from overseas credit cards at local merchants reached 960 in June, sharpl

The author (second from right) used credit card points to save on her Orlando family trip. Courtesy of Lisa Galek Our six-day Orlando trip for a family of five cost about $8,620. By opening credit cards before our trip, we were able to earn points. We then used those points to redeem a lot of our travel expenses, redu