The pandemic, as it goes into its third year, with remote work shifting to hybrid models, will cause more people to check into hotels to work, a report in The New York Times said Thursday (March 3). The report notes that employees who moved out...
FLEETCOR, the global business payments company, has acquired Levarti, the airline software company. Levarti offers a suite of solutions to automate passenger disruptions including passenger notifications, flight rebookings, hotel accommodations, transfers and vouchers. Levarti’s MAX software suite rolled out in 2014, and several global airlines...
You can almost feel the recovery. Mask mandates falling off. Warm weather on its way. Show of hands, who’s up for a little getaway? Oh, absolutely everyone? Good. You’ve come to the right place, that being PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Travel Apps. We’ve scored the...
As the business press keeps recounting a brutal 2020 for air travel and lodgings, we’ve heard somewhat less about the woes of destination marketing organizations (DMOs), which are responsible for getting people to choose Paris over Rome, or India over Indonesia, and then book accordingly....
Short-term rentals supported more than 75,000 jobs in Arizona last year and generated $6.6 billion, according to report released Wednesday (Feb. 23) by Airbnb and Expedia. “The study finds that short-term rentals are an integral part of the Arizona economy, with visitor spending lifting up...
There is no question about the severe impact the pandemic has had on the travel industry, and that includes the mayhem it caused travel businesses as they struggled to process an unprecedented number of booking cancellations and refund requests. The huge delays in expediting these...
Booked a hotel lately? If not, be ready for higher rack rates on whole new invoicing vocabularies, from “sustainability fees” to ambiguous “amenities fees,” replacing what is traditionally seen as hospitality being hospitable — free late checkout to facilities use. With the flip-flopping recovery seeming...
In what could be a new “pay now, launch later” use case readying for liftoff, Virgin Galactic is open for consumer business as of Wednesday (Feb. 16), with tickets starting at just $450,000. The spacefaring arm of embattled Virgin Atlantic Airways said in a Tuesday...
COVID-19’s omicron variant didn’t seem to have made much of an impact on Americans’ winter travel plans. As PYMNTS’ research learned, the average amount consumers spent on travel purchases rose from $381 in December to $507 in January. That means what while omicron remains a...