Travel agents have long gone the way of video store clerks, and consumers haven’t walked into an airport or hotel to make a flight or room reservation in more than a generation. Booking travel, whether a short Uber ride across town or vacation abroad, first...
Web3 money app Wirex said Thursday (March 27) that it launched a travel booking platform that offers reduced rates on hotel stays and cash-back rewards when using a Wirex card. The new platform, Wirex Travel, also offers exclusive deals and allows users to pay with...
Business and group travel platform Engine has joined forces with commerce platform WEX. The partnership is designed to offer WEX’s Over The Road Fuel Cards as a payment option for eligible customers, making Engine the first business travel company to accept WEX’s Fleet One and EFS fuel cards,...
Travel-focused payment orchestration provider CellPoint Digital is expanding its partnership with Southwest Airlines. The new collaboration will see Southwest use CellPoint’s new cloud-native orchestration platform to provide a personalized travel experience via an “advanced Offer & Order payment solution,” the company said in a Tuesday (March 18) news release....
SnappStay officially launched its short-term rental platform Friday (March 14). The company aims to compete with other vacation rental platforms by offering a user-friendly interface, a streamlined booking process, and lower fees that enable guests to pay less and property owners to keep more of...
The hospitality industry is built on service, but the hotel experience has remained largely unchanged for decades. Guests arrive at a front desk, provide identification, hand over a credit card for pre-authorization, and receive a room key, often on a printed piece of plastic. However,...
A day after Delta Air Lines cut its guidance, citing lower U.S. consumer confidence, three more airlines made similar comments about the current macroeconomic environment. In presentations made Tuesday (March 11) at the J.P. Morgan Industrials Conference, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines revised their outlooks downward...
Sunrate and Atlas have partnered to address the travel industry’s cross-border payment challenges. In this collaboration, Sunrate will integrate its travel payment solutions with Atlas’ Air Travel Retailing and Information Platform (ATRIP), the companies said in a Tuesday (March 4) press release. Sunrate’s virtual and...
Financial management app Expensify says its travel management tool is now available to all customers. The company first announced Expensify Travel last year, opening a waitlist to early select customers. Now, Expensify said in a news release Tuesday (Feb. 25), the offering is open to...
