While leisure travel is on the upswing this summer, business travel is giving way to Zoom meetings over zooming jets as flight disruptions and soaring costs find corporates taking a hard look at travel expenses, leaving many wondering if the practice will ever return to...
Heathrow Airport in London is limiting the number of departing passengers to 100,000 per day until September and has asked airlines to suspend ticket sales for the summer. In a message on its website Tuesday (July 12), the airport said the cap on passengers was...
Neither pandemic flareups nor inflation will deter adventurous South Korean travelers from booking travel in a recovery year, but it’s an advanced market that demands more from travel experiences, how travelers are able to pay, and in the case of suppliers, be paid. Whatever the...
There isn’t much movement in this month’s edition of PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Travel apps. The 11 apps that have earned a place in the top 10 were here last month too. What’s more, each was in the same position in the rankings. There are...
Approved travelers booking hotels through the Agoda platform will get a buy now, pay later (BNPL) option provided by BNPL provider Affirm under a new arrangement, the companies announced Monday (June 13). For hotel stays costing $50 or more, guests will be allowed to make...
If we can subscribe to something like Apocabox — should the world end on a predictable monthly recurring billing schedule — why can’t we subscribe to more travel services? That gap in the market is yawning, but it won’t be for much longer as subscriptions are going...
With desire for summer vacations competing with consumer anxiety, travel app Hopper has rolled out a suite of FinTech flexibility products designed to help people save on their trips. Hopper CEO Frederic Lalonde announced the new products on the company’s website Tuesday (June 7), saying...
Disrupting traditional travel payments — a legacy ecosystem rife with opacity and inefficiency — is potentially a killer app for cryptocurrency, availing new ways to book, pay and admit entry to a rapidly forming metaverse where pre-travel experiences promise to be truly immersive. As Travala...
If you’re among the nearly 40 million Americans expected to have traveled over this holiday weekend, you paid more than you have in many years for everything — and it was worth it. As the holiday approached, AAA released its annual forecast on Memorial Day travel,...