The buy now, pay later (BNPL) provider Uplift has formed a new partnership with Southwest Airlines, a move that the company says will allow customers to book flights to more than 100 destinations and pay for their trips over time. “Uplift is seeing strong pent-up...
The global pandemic shut business travel down a little over a year ago as workers relocated to their home offices and physical interactions between colleagues more or less rolled up the sidewalk for most of 2020. According to a business travel trade association, business travel...
Travel and entertainment platform TripActions is collaborating with Visa to support the expansion of “digital-first payment solutions for business travel,” according to a Tuesday (April 20) announcement emailed to PYMNTS. The partnership will bring together Visa’s offerings and TripActions’ infrastructure to support expense management for...
Expedia is making a move to reposition its brand strategy as the company looks to assist the consumer travel segment with increased attention instead of focusing only on booking volume. “For the past 25 years, we’ve been focused on volume and transactions as our way...
As travel resumes after the COVID-19 pandemic, Airbnb will need a bevy of new hosts to house travelers. The home sharing site currently has 4 million hosts, CNBC reported. “To meet the demand over the coming years, we’re going to need millions more hosts,” Airbnb...
Universal Air Travel Plan (UATP) will expand its partnership with PayPal to include “Pay in 4,” a program that lets consumers pay for their airfare in four interest-free payments, the global payment network said in an announcement on Wednesday (April 14). Under the program, tickets...
By the numbers, saying the travel industry had a terrible year is a massive understatement. In the wake of a global pandemic, the year was so bad that apocalyptic only barely covers it. The travel industry closed the books on 2020 with $1.1 trillion (with...
Travel in China made a strong comeback last weekend, a three-day weekend that marked the first national holiday since the government eased COVID-related travel restrictions. As Bloomberg reported on Tuesday (April 6), Chinese residents made 102 million trips during the “Tomb-Sweeping” holiday, a festival in...
The term “pent-up demand” has taken on a wholly new (and surprisingly literal) meaning in the era of COVID-19. It’s not that we’ve been idle. We’ve watched a lot of Netflix, redecorated, bulked up our board game skills and learned to bake bread. We can...