Credit card spending by foreign tourists Portugal

Portugal's foreign visitors continue to drive a strong increase in consumer credit card. According to the international network of credit card services company "Unicre" The latest data show that in 2007 in Portugal the use of foreign bank credit card spending amount increased by 20%, created in the past 10 years, the highest point. Unicre statistics, in 2007, Portugal's foreign trade bank to use credit and debit cards amounted to a total of 240 million euros the previous year, an increase of 20 billion euros. In shopping, foreign tourists on the amount of credit card transactions over the previous year, an increase of 200,000,000 euros