Digital Wallets in Business Travel Starting to Make Road Warriors’ Wish Lists
Photo Credit: A business traveler on her smartphone at New York's LaGuardia Airport. Flickr / Matthew Hurst
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Mobile is everything in Latin America, even more so than the U.S., so travelers in Brazil and Mexico are more receptive to using digital payment features than their peers in the U.S.
Credit cards and cash aren't disappearing anytime soon but Latin American business travelers in Brazil and Mexico appear keener to bid them farewell for digital payments than their counterparts in other regions, including the U.S.
In a Global Business Travel Association and American Express survey, 36% of both Brazilian and Mexican business traveler respondents indicated they're likely to use mobile, cashless wallets where credit card information is stored on a smartphone. More than 3,800 business travelers from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the U.K. and the U.S. who took four or more business trips between March 2014 and
