During the New Year holidays, Alfa-Bank clients spent 13% more on trips abroad than a year earlier

During the holidays from January 1 to January 8, 2019, Alfa-Bank customers spent more than 6.3 billion rubles on bank cards on trips abroad.

As before, Italy retains its leadership among the countries in which the bank's clients prefer to spend their New Year holidays. More than 865 million rubles were spent by the bank's clients in this sunny country, while the number of transactions exceeded 82,000. The top 5 popular countries also include France (523 million rubles), Spain (415 million rubles), the United Arab Emirates (410 million rubles) and the USA (411 million rubles). The bank's clients also made purchases in Austria, Germany, Thailand, Switzerland, Finland and other countries.

The most actively withdrawing cash using Alfa-Bank cards was in foreign banks in Thailand (132 million rubles), Germany (63 million rubles), USA (53 million rubles), Spain (52 million rubles), Italy (45 million rubles). .), China (30 million rubles), France (29 million rubles), Belarus (27 million rubles), England (26 million rubles) and Israel (25 million rubles).