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,...
Airbnb won’t be going forward with its domestic listings in China, CNBC wrote Monday (May 23), citing costs and competition. The Chinese version of the popular vacation rental site was rolled out in 2016. Since then it has had competition from domestic players as well...
As peoples’ travel habits shift, Airbnb said in a company blog post Tuesday (May 17) that it has seen more bookings in rural areas. One area that has also been growing is farm stays, which doubled in the first quarter of 2022 as opposed to...
In a bid to get more people booking flights and accommodation, travel booking firms are spending a lot on advertising, Reuters reported Friday (May 13). This comes as the summer travel season is imminent, and the companies want to try and get travel back to...
As travel has picked up, so have the numbers of tolls, tickets and parking meters to be paid. Verra Mobility reported that its total revenue for the first quarter was up 90% year over year. The company’s organic service revenue grew 45% mainly due to...