I wish there were better ways to use UPI as a tourist. Like if wise.com could support QR code payments to it. Right now the system isn’t very accessible to those on short term visits.
Interesting! It took me a lot of googling after reading to figure this out…
The international airports have Thomas Cook booths for exchanging cash to rupees. They now allow foreigners to create an account on this app called “fave” which they can reload only at the airport. This is limited only to g20 countries (that’s an odd requirement considering many wealthy countries aren’t in g20).
It’s a start but still way too complicated to figure out after 10 hour flight and stressful airport entry.
I hope they improve by integrating recharge by PayPal or another internationally useful service.
