ABN AMRO launches Smart Traveller Credit Card in UAE

ABN AMRO today launched a unique product in the UAE - the Smart Traveller Credit Card. The new credit card is innovatively designed to offer travellers an exclusive range of travel-related benefits. The product is being issued in conjunction with MasterCard International.

Smart Traveller Credit Card's unique benefits include an impressive list of partner offers from Thai Airways, Alitalia, Accor, Shangri-La and Hertz, comprehensive travel & emergency medical insurance, SMiles - Smart Traveller Credit Cards air miles programme, as well as a 24 hour personal travel assistant and concierge service that can assist travellers to booking everything from flights to babysitters, limousines to restaurant bookings in the country to which the cardholder is travelling. This innovative chip technology enabled travel card also offers cardholders a complimentary Priority Pass that provides access to 400 airport executive lounges around the world.

"ABN AMRO is aggressively growing its consumer franchise in key regional markets including UAE. We will tailor our product suite to meet local preferences across the region while simultaneously providing our customers benefits only a global bank can," said Romesh Sobti, Executive Vice President, Country Representative, India & Head Strategic Value Business Asia & Middle East, ABN AMRO Bank N.V. "This product is another strategic step in demonstrating our commitment to UAE," he added.

MasterCard issuance forms a corner stone of ABN AMRO's strategy to become one of the leading players in the Credit Cards business.

"ABN AMRO is committed to offering customers innovative financial products supported by top quality service. We believe that the Smart Traveller Credit Card is truly innovative and raises the benchmark of benefits available to card holders. We are confident that the Smart Traveller credit card will be very popular among all travellers as it provides a real value," said Burhan Khan, Head of Consumer Banking, ABN AMRO.

Speaking on the partnership, Mohamed Belarj, Senior Vice President and General Manager, MasterCard International, Middle East and North Africa said: "MasterCard International and ABN AMRO have a track record of successful partnerships around the world and we are delighted to extend this relationship to the UAE. As innovators in the field of chip based smart cards, MasterCard has worked closely with ABN AMRO to bring advanced MasterCard Chip technology to the UAE."

With three eye-catching designs to choose from, the card is available from ABN AMRO's branches in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah.