How practical is cashless travel?


Visitors to London can travel on all public transport with a contactless payment card. — Wikimedia Commons

Like many millennials, Keira Chin likes to discover new sights and sounds on her trips abroad. What she doesn’t like is coming home from her holidays with leftover foreign notes.

“If I were to change all that foreign currency back to our ringgit, I would definitely lose some money, ” she says, adding that it’s also bothersome to look for a currency exchange outlet.

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