Personal travel website Expedia aims to use artificial intelligence (AI) to change the way people plan their trips and vacations. The company is looking to provide personalized recommendations to users, helping them make decisions about their next travel destinations, The Verge reported Monday (Dec. 18)....
Consumers are doing whatever they can to be able to travel this holiday season, from cutting back on other purchases to funding their expenses with credit cards, according to PYMNTS Intelligence data. But one thing is sure: consumers aren’t willing to curb travel. Consumers of...
Payments firm Expensify has launched a new integration with Booking.com for Business. The collaboration lets business travelers automatically upload travel receipts from Booking.com for Business directly into Expensify at booking, thus eliminating the need for manual data entry and reducing potential errors, the companies said in a Tuesday (Dec. 12)...
A record number of Americans will fly this holiday season, despite rising travel costs. Roughly 7.5 million people will choose air travel to reach their holiday destinations, AAA reported Monday (Dec. 11) in its annual holiday travel survey. That figure surpasses the record set in 2019 of 7.3...
There’s movement in this edition of PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Travel apps, as some contenders soar to new heights while others fall. Expedia knocks Airbnb and Booking.com down this month, giving Hotels.com, Hopper and TripAdvisor room to shake up the top five. Here’s where the...
Amazon Prime is offering student members $25 flights home for the holidays. The eCommerce giant has teamed with student travel platform StudentUniverse to make that offering on a limited number of round-trip flights, the company said in a Thursday (Nov. 30) news release. According to the release, Prime Student...
“I’d like to believe that I’ve spent my career making travel more accessible,” Jon Gray, CEO of RVshare, told Karen Webster in the most recent “Matchmakers” installment. From his vantage point at RVshare’s helm for half a decade and at VRBO (formerly HomeAway) for more...
European hospitality provider Accor is debuting an AI-powered travel assistant through Amazon Web Services (AWS). Announced Wednesday (Nov. 30), the tool comes at a time when a number of consumers are showing interest in using artificial intelligence (AI) to help plan and book trips. “Incorporating an intuitive conversational interface,...
Rising costs haven’t stamped out the travel bug for Americans, a new Visa survey shows. The new edition of the Visa Global Travel Intentions Study, released Tuesday (Nov. 28), shows that while consumers are aware of rising costs, it hasn’t deterred them from wanting to travel. Americans...
