As peak summer travel season closes in fast and with flights, hotels and restaurant prices all inflated, more people are opting to ditch that model and rent a recreational vehicle (RV). The economics of RV rentals are favorable in several ways, Co-founder and Chief Marketing...
Payments FinTech Nuvei has integrated its platform with travel software firm Sabre. The integration, announced Tuesday (April 25), will let Sabre offer its partners a “superior customer payments experience,” helping them maximize card payment approval rates, boost revenue growth, and “reduce customers lost due to...
Lyft will “significantly reduce” the size of its workforce next week. The company did not specify the number of employees who will be affected, instead saying they will be notified about their employment status Thursday (April 27). All offices will be closed that day, and...
Even as pent-up travel demand was unleashed throughout 2022 with airlines and lodgings firms reporting strong performance and outlook, the word “uncertainty” was used a lot and could be taking a more definable form as doubt has entered the picture for the travel sector in...
Amid the great travel rebound, the scramble to book flights and pay for them leads to something else entirely. Let’s call it booking envy. Log on, submit payment, and then (we’ve all been there) feel crestfallen upon finding out that the price falls days or...
T3 Tech has launched software that supports the order-to-cash lifecycle of freight transactions. Designed for small fleets operating 20 or fewer trucks, the new TrueTMS transportation management system features a cloud-native design, user-friendly interface and structured workflows, T3 Tech said in a Monday (April 3)...
Paris will ban electric scooter rental services effective Sept. 1. The move follows a Sunday (April 2) referendum in which 89% of those who voted favored the ban, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Sunday. The French capital had been a pioneer in the urban...
Lyft could use a lift. At this writing, the company’s shares are trading at a bit over $9.60, well off recent peaks of more than $17. The fact that the stock’s barely budged in the wake of a significant shakeup in the C-suite belies investors’...
As talk in payments circles turns more and more to localization and alternative payment methods (APMs), smart routing and payments orchestration is stepping up as a solution to the soft declines and complex billing issues that attend air travel, especially international. To that end, London-based...