The demands for cash post-Sandy have come from customers who have fewer withdrawal options thanks to power outages and storm damage, and businesses that are accepting cashonly due to communications woes that leave them unable to accept credit and debit cards.
You'll need lots of cash (there are no ATMs, and only a handful of hotels accept credit cards), a yellow fever vaccination, malaria preventatives and bug spray.
MasterCard has helped iZettle enter the UK market as we know that enabling small businesses to accept card payments will stimulate more business by addressing the restriction of customers paying only with cash.