South Africa Diners Card

By: EconomyWatch   Date: 6 October 2010

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South Africa Diners Card offers comprehensive travel and entertainment expense management solutions. Diners Club is locally owned by Standard Bank. South Africa Diners Club is recognized as one of the top Diners Club franchises among the 158 in theworld.

Diners Card: History

The Diners Card was introduced in New York over 50 years ago. Shortly after its inception, Diners Card became the first card to provide services to the business traveler and it became the first charge card to be accepted by airlines in 1955.

Diners Card South Africa: Types

Diners Club in association with various airline companies has developed three co-branded cards to offer unique benefits toDiners Card holders. These include:

The SAA Voyager co-branded Diners Club Card: This card offers greater spending power within and outside the country. The miles earned by flying South African Airways, can be exchanged for various rewards.

The Star Alliance co-branded Diners Club Card: This card offers fast and convenient flights, with over 16,930 daily flights to 153 countries.

The British Airways co-branded Diners Club Card: This card offers rewards in terms of miles every time the card is used.


South Africa Diners Card: Benefits

Diners Card holds the distinction of being the world's first multi-use charge card. It offers a wide range of benefits, including:

  • Concierge Service for arrangements while traveling such as booking flights, restaurant reservations, golf arrangements and organizing conferences.


  • Complimentary access to domestic and international airport lounges.


  • Complimentary Global Calling Card, which facilitates making calls from foreign countries at subsidized rates and charge them to the Diners Card. This card is valid in 120 countries and helps to save up to 50% on international cellular roaming charges.


  • Complimentary travel insurance and optional top-up insurance.


  • Automatic insurance against fraudulent use of lost or stolen cards. This protection can be availed to cover the card transactions that occur after the card is lost or stolen as well as those transactions that occur during the 48 hours before receiving the written notice for the loss.


  • Add-on card facility offers a convenient way to separate personal and business expenditure or simply as a back up.

Diners Club is owned internationally by Citibank. Diners Card is issued in more than 200 countries and accepted by 14 million establishments.

‘Diners Club’ and ‘Diners Card’ are trademarks of Diners Club, who can be found at www.dinersclub.co.za.


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