Luxury hotel group The Kessler Collection is teaming with BitPay to accept digital currency as a payment method, according to an announcement on Tuesday (March 9). “I believe cryptocurrency is only going to gain acceptance, and partnering with BitPay allows us to offer more choices...
The travel search service Kayak has unveiled a new feature that allows guests at independent hotels to choose their room, check in or order a meal just by using the company’s app. According to The Wall Street Journal, Kayak will launch this system next month...
Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel said people should look into making travel plans now before prices go back up, according to CNBC. He said there’s a lot of anxiety right now as people attempt to get their lives “back the way it used to be,”...
The number of Airbnb listings across Europe has dropped off significantly since the pandemic’s start in 2020, with hosts favoring longer-term rentals over shorter holiday stays, according to a report from Reuters. The drop in short-term rentals led to as much as a 15 percent...
The ultimate goal in the payments world is invisibility — a transaction that happens so seamlessly that it fades into the background of a purchase path, barely registering in the customer’s conscious mind. But invisible payments are a tough goal in a world where commerce...
The spring break season, usually a major U.S. travel period for college students, now looks desolate as the pandemic continues, with only around one in eight Americans planning a trip this year, a report from the U.S. Travel Association says. That comes even as vaccines...
It was too much to hope that the world would be transformed on Jan. 1, 2020. After a year of weathering the pandemic with travel industry players, as Flywire’s Travel Segment head Colin Smyth told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster in a recent conversation, he knew it...
TripAdvisor first announced its travel subscription plan on its third quarter earnings call with analysts, describing a coming offering that would bring to subscribers discounts on hotels and attractions worldwide as a starting point, with what CEO Steve Kaufer called “plenty more if you think...
The walk back from the COVID-19 pandemic may have quickened a bit this week, with the announcement that a third vaccine has been officially approved by the FDA this week and will begin rolling out this week. Whether the new vaccine will be a “total...