hospitality

Business Travel Takeoff Looks Imminent as Conditions Improve — But Who Really Knows?
Business Travel Takeoff Looks Imminent as Conditions Improve — But Who Really Knows?
April 21, 2022  |  Travel Payments

Been seeing all the photos of people at live business events lately? It’s masks-off, flaps-up and stow-your-tray-table time for business travel, according to multiple reports...

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Hotel Properties Attract Investors as Travel Resumes
Hotel Properties Attract Investors as Travel Resumes
April 20, 2022  |  Real Estate

Investors are showing revived interest in purchasing hotels, a property category battered especially brutally during the pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported. Citing data from...

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How COVID Made Hotels Rethink Business Travel
How COVID Made Hotels Rethink Business Travel
April 15, 2022  |  Travel Payments

COVID has disrupted business travel, and with it one of the mainstays of hotels: corporate negotiated rates. And as Hotel News Now reported Thursday (April...

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Uber Adds Booking for Flights, Trains, Hotels
Uber Adds Booking for Flights, Trains, Hotels
April 06, 2022  |  Transportation

Uber is adding new travel booking options for U.K. users as part of a strategic push to become a super app and one-stop-shop for national...

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Amenitiz Closes on $30M Funding for SaaS Billed as ‘Shopify for Hotels’
Amenitiz Closes on $30M Funding for SaaS Billed as ‘Shopify for Hotels’
April 05, 2022  |  Investments

Barcelona-based Amenitiz, developer of a software-as-a-service solution designed to streamline the administration of hotels and bed and breakfasts (B&Bs), has closed a $30 million Series A...

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GoTab, Mastercard Partner to Enhance Digital Checkout
GoTab, Mastercard Partner to Enhance Digital Checkout
April 01, 2022  |  Payment Methods

GoTab, a restaurant commerce platform, has partnered with Mastercard to eliminate the need to manually enter card details at hospitality venues in the United States, the...

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24% of Travel, Tourism CFOs Say Slow Payment Is a Top Challenge
24% of Travel, Tourism CFOs Say Slow Payment Is a Top Challenge
March 30, 2022  |  B2B Payments

Most large companies in the travel and tourism sectors are unhappy with their approaches to payments management, PYMNTS research has found. The majority of the...

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Hackers Target Hotels, Exploit Weak COVID-19 Contact Tracing Safeguards
Hackers Target Hotels, Exploit Weak COVID-19 Contact Tracing Safeguards
March 28, 2022  |  Cybersecurity

Many travelers left something behind at the last hotel they visited — and it wasn’t a shirt or shoes. Large amounts of personal identifiable data...

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Nonius Aquires Scottish Startup as Mobile Tech Hospitality Soars
Nonius Aquires Scottish Startup as Mobile Tech Hospitality Soars
March 16, 2022  |  Partnerships

The Edinburgh-based startup Criton, which says it is the largest provider of guest apps for independent hotels in the United Kingdom, has been acquired by...

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