If apps make life easier — and they do — it’s no wonder how popular travel apps are, pandemic be damned. They’re big, and getting bigger, as people reacclimate to breathing airplane air and checking into rooms that are not their own. Like anything important, it’s a process.
With this latest update to PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Travel Apps, the point is driven home (perhaps we should say “flown home”) by shifting chart positions and a handful of surprises that, in all candor, we did not see coming. Such apps don’t often descend from upper altitudes.
That said, come fly with us, maybe spend the weekend, get a bite. We’ll register the rankings.
The Top Five
The staying power of Booking.com at No. 1 is un-booking-believable, yet there it sits again.
Changes begin at No. 2, where a tie now exists between amazing Airbnb, which has occupied that position for months, joined this cycle by the Hopper app, hopping up two spots to No. 2.
The resulting adjustment of ranks is just how it goes in the great app competition, although it doesn’t affect Vrbo, holding sure as houses at No. 3 yet again.
Mighty Hotels.com takes the elevator up one floor to book a suite at No. 4 this cycle.
The big news? We said to keep your eyes on the skies — or, more precisely, Skyscanner, which flies up one spot to land at No. 5. Welcome to restricted airspace. Triple legroom up in first.
The Top 10
In a ranking rife with risers, KAYAK paddles upriver one spot to take No. 6 this cycle.
The TripAdvisor app journeys upriver as well, scoring No. 7 on a one-spot trip upward.
It’s always hiking season somewhere, which helps explain the sure and steady footing of the AllTrails app, keeping on the path and sticking at No. 8. Sensible, much like hiking itself.
Make room upstairs for PriorityPass, the airport lounge membership app that elevates one spot this cycle to take a comfy chair, a tarmac view — and a nap spot if you need it — at No. 9.
Travel is all about meeting new people, so we greet the Couchsurfing Travel App and the “12 million travel enthusiasts … in more than 230,000 cities around the world” who like to stay with locals or host travelers. They enter the top 10 at No. 10, and that’s a successful trip.
What more can be said about this Provider Ranking of Travel Apps? We’re on the move again, and not a moment too soon. Everyone needs at least a weekend trip at this point. So, go.
We’re always on the lookout for opportunities to partner with innovators and disruptors.
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