+-/- 8% (or less ), the point is the same: the vast majority of transactions in Germany are still in cash, but Sweden has more rapidly become a different story. Either way the trend toward going cash free is increasing and impacting those staying at hotels during trips abroad.

Sometimes ancient innovations (like that of coinage/cash as a unit of value/measurement, a store of wealth and medium of exchange) don’t create the same kind of problems that an extreme dependency on modern technologies can create when things go seriously wrong and stay offline “for too long”.

A mixed system of old school and new school operating in conjunction is my idea of the “best of al worlds” when it comes to travel. Declining cash acceptance does have some consequences, realized or not as of yet..