Digital lodging marketplace Airbnb debuted a Trust & Safety Advisory Coalition (TSAC) to advise the company, give people a feeling of protection while traveling and promote a reliable experience before, during and after a trip. Comprised of 22 industry organizations, the TSAC will advise Airbnb...
For business travelers, 2019 is looking more and more like a high-water mark. We may all be looking forward to being face to face in the age of vaccinations, as COVID-19 case counts are well off peaks. Companies want to keep vendor relationships intact, and...
In a redesign bid to bring up more kinds of booking options in more streamlined ways, Airbnb is debuting what CEO Brian Chesky calls “the biggest change to Airbnb in a decade.” In a Wednesday (May 11) video presentation on the company’s 2022 summer release,...
Global travel booking platform Agoda is offering interest-free credit card installments for travel with Visa and is the first online travel agency in the Asia Pacific region to offer this arrangement, according to a press release Wednesday (May 11). The installment plan is available to...
Even though Booking Holdings has just delivered its highest quarterly tally of travel planning in the company’s history, it’s racing to fill a specific hole in its stable of flight, hotel, car rental and other vacation and leisure reservation offerings: alternative accommodations. While the company...
For Airbnb, the extended stay is here to stay. The company’s latest earnings show that key measures of activity are above pre-pandemic levels — and that guests, buoyed by the work-from-home trend, are staying at the platform’s properties for longer stretches of time. As for...
The travel snapback is here, but travel companies and aggregator sites aren’t ready to handle the deluge in bookings and surging payment volumes. That’s not to mention the rising demands for rebates, as well as the cancellations and refunds that can mount when trips go...
Been seeing all the photos of people at live business events lately? It’s masks-off, flaps-up and stow-your-tray-table time for business travel, according to multiple reports and market signals. On Thursday (April 21), the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) published member survey results finding that 86%...
COVID has disrupted business travel, and with it one of the mainstays of hotels: corporate negotiated rates. And as Hotel News Now reported Thursday (April 14), that shift has left hotel sales and marketing staff working harder to accommodate corporate clients. “Early on, there was...