Paris, Aug 1 (PTI) “I don’t know what you are talking about,” says the information desk official at the Eiffel Tower, the iconic engineering marvel, when asked how to buy a ticket using UPI or the QR-code mode of payment.

The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) was introduced in Paris in February this year with an aim to allow Indians to buy tickets to visit the iconic tower without having to worry about currency exchange rates or carrying large amounts of foreign currency.

The Eiffel Tower was the first merchant to offer UPI payments in France, and the service was planned to be extended to other merchants in the tourism and retail space across the country and Europe.

However, the ticket counters at one of the most significant landmarks in Paris, have neither arrangements nor information about whether a Quick Response (QR) code is even an option to buy a ticket.

Hisham Mohammed, who works as a guide at the Eiffel Tower, was pretty excited when he learned that such an option was being made for the Indians.

“Well, it was only in the news. No one knows here about the UPI option,” Hisham, who hails from Hyderabad, told

Source: PTI News