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Agents cut credit card sales to allay financial impact of surcharge ban

Consumer protection
Tom Parry
16 August 2017

Agents have started reducing credit card sales to pre-empt financial pressures from the impending government ban on surcharging, TTG has learned.

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Jackie Steadman, director of Berkhamsted-based TravelTime World, told TTG her agency had this week implemented a new policy to “not take any more credit card payments” and would now aim to “plateau” the number of its customers using them to book.


Echoing Steadman, Nick Harding-McKay, managing director of Travel Designers in Balham, south London, said his agency would take similar steps on January 13 next year – the date the Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) comes into force.