France to accept UPI payments soon across the country, starting with the most attractive tourist destination EIFFEL Tower, as a merchant it is now easy to book tickets with transactions made easy.
The waiting period is reduced to a significant low which takes around 2 hours during peak seasons. Tourists can visit the official website to book tickets where they can scan the QR code to book tickets by UPI service.
Soon more merchants of tourism sites will be accepting the UPI interface in nearby museums and hotels etc., that are required for the stay in France. The Indian embassy announced this on 2nd February 2024 officially at the reception of Republic Day
The NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India) with International Payments Limited (NIPL) has collaborated with the E-commerce & payment expert of France Lyra to introduce a UPI interface at tourism sites currently which was part of the MoU signed in 2022 however India had sped up the process to facilitate UPI services in foreign countries which can be adopted by foreigners as well.
While Singapore already accepted cross-border transactions through UPI many more countries will be accepting the payments by UPI with efforts taking place from NPCI. Soon we can see Abu Dhabi accepting UPI services along with European and Asian countries in line.
This comes after the France president came as chief guest for the Republic Day celebration on 26th January 2024 in India which is considered one of the best collaborations between the two countries.
Though there is no announcement at the republic day but comes at the reception of republic day with soon accepting the UPI services across the France nation with more merchants.
The UPI services are broadly used by 380 million users in India with 12.2 billion transactions in January 2024 alone.
