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Deep Dive: Travel, Hospitality Get A Millennial Makeover
Deep Dive: Travel, Hospitality Get A Millennial Makeover
January 13, 2020  |  Commerce Connected

Millennials have long been sought-after travel and hospitality customers, partly because they are perfectly placed to seek such experiences. They are old enough to have...

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Reaching Millennial Travelers With Payments Technology
Reaching Millennial Travelers With Payments Technology
January 10, 2020  |  Today In Data

Hotels, airlines and homesharing platforms need strategies to satisfy the travel needs of four generations of jetsetters, who each have different booking and payment preferences....

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How Travel Streamlines Payments In A Complex Web Of B2B Connections
How Travel Streamlines Payments In A Complex Web Of B2B Connections
December 12, 2019  |  B2B Payments

The travel industry is a highly fragmented, complex web of suppliers, distributors, tourism companies and online travel agents (OTAs), all hustling to keep pace with...

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Leavy App Raises $14M To Help Millennials Raise Travel Funds
Leavy App Raises $14M To Help Millennials Raise Travel Funds
November 27, 2019  |  Investments

Paris-based startup Leavy.co, which offers a travel app to help millennials finance their travel plans, has raised $14 million. Leavy kept the Seed funding round...

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UK’s Duffel Lands $30M To Connect Airlines With Travel Agents
UK’s Duffel Lands $30M To Connect Airlines With Travel Agents
October 29, 2019  |  Investments

U.K. startup Duffel announced that it has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round. Index Ventures, as well as existing investors Benchmark and...

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Why Treehouses Rule The Airbnb Roost
Why Treehouses Rule The Airbnb Roost
September 21, 2019  |  Retail

Pop quiz: When you read the words “most popular Airbnb listing in history,” what is the first thought that pops into your mind? Maybe something painfully...

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CellPoint Mobile Rebrands As CellPoint Digital To Power Travel Payments
CellPoint Mobile Rebrands As CellPoint Digital To Power Travel Payments
September 03, 2019  |  Omnicommerce

CellPoint Mobile, which specializes in digital commerce and payment solutions for airlines and travel companies, today rebranded as CellPoint Digital with a new website and...

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Google’s Latest Travel Move Could Boost Contextual Commerce
Google’s Latest Travel Move Could Boost Contextual Commerce
August 09, 2019  |  Retail

Make room for more contextual commerce and more retail innovation in the travel sector. That’s the view from one of Google’s latest retail-associated launches, an airfare insight...

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Groupon Buys AI Tool To Offer Text, Chat Bookings
Groupon Buys AI Tool To Offer Text, Chat Bookings
August 08, 2019  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Groupon has acquired an AI-driven voice and text messaging tool called Presence AI, according to a press release. The tool is meant to enhance a...

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