Master Card World Wide will distribute up-front-money noncontact card for the tourists

MasterCard World Wide cooperated with Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC) and announced about the edition of the up-front-money refilled cards for the tourists -MasterCard Travel Card. This card will be distributed in more than 20 000 tourism agencies in USA. Besides the traditional magnetic stripe the new product has the MasterCard Pay Pass function. It is the first up-front-money tourist card integrated with noncontact payment technology. According to Bill Mathis, executive vice-president of MasterCard World Wide, MasterCard Travel Card suggests to the travelers rather usable payment tools that can be reached and available in 25 million trade outlets in the world.