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A New Travel Credit Card is Now Available

by Holly Riddle

Apr 4, 2024

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Looking for a new travel credit card to add to your wallet? Consider the newly launched Wells Fargo Autograph Journey Visa Card, available as of March 20.

 

The card comes with a bevy of benefits. Cardholders earn unlimited five times the points on hotels, four times the points on airlines, three times the points on other travel and dining, and one times the points on everything else. A $50 annual statement credit can be applied to airline and some travel purchases. There are no foreign transaction fees, and the card comes with travel protection benefits, including trip cancellation protection.

 

“Autograph Journey is Wells Fargo’s best travel rewards card to date, designed to help cardholders build journeys as unique as they are by earning points wherever they book travel,” said Krista Phillips, executive vice president and head of consumer credit cards and enterprise marketing, Wells Fargo. “We continue to build up our consumer offerings with best-in-class rewards cards specifically created with our customers’ lifestyles top of mind. Autograph Journey’s highly competitive value proposition with rich rewards lets travelers enjoy more extraordinary adventures, more often.”

 

The card comes with a $95 annual fee. For those who sign up now, they’ll get 60,000 bonus rewards points after spending $4,000 within three months.

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