SnappStay officially launched its short-term rental platform Friday (March 14). The company aims to compete with other vacation rental platforms by offering a user-friendly interface, a streamlined booking process, and lower fees that enable guests to pay less and property owners to keep more of...
The hospitality industry is built on service, but the hotel experience has remained largely unchanged for decades. Guests arrive at a front desk, provide identification, hand over a credit card for pre-authorization, and receive a room key, often on a printed piece of plastic. However,...
A day after Delta Air Lines cut its guidance, citing lower U.S. consumer confidence, three more airlines made similar comments about the current macroeconomic environment. In presentations made Tuesday (March 11) at the J.P. Morgan Industrials Conference, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines revised their outlooks downward...
Sunrate and Atlas have partnered to address the travel industry’s cross-border payment challenges. In this collaboration, Sunrate will integrate its travel payment solutions with Atlas’ Air Travel Retailing and Information Platform (ATRIP), the companies said in a Tuesday (March 4) press release. Sunrate’s virtual and...
Financial management app Expensify says its travel management tool is now available to all customers. The company first announced Expensify Travel last year, opening a waitlist to early select customers. Now, Expensify said in a news release Tuesday (Feb. 25), the offering is open to...
Travel-industry-focused payment orchestration provider CellPoint Digital has launched a partnership with Air Europa. The collaboration, announced Thursday (Feb. 20), is designed to help the air carrier process a wider range of alternative payment methods (APMs), and comes as Air Europa looks to expand and increase its service frequency to Latin...
The travel sector comeback has been underway since the end of the pandemic. But the accompanying digital shift has been slow to come to the travel industry itself, where complexity reigns and interactions and payments still flow across a mix of digital and legacy platforms....
CellPoint Digital is bringing its payment orchestration offerings to the travel sector. The company’s new payment orchestration platform is designed to support the airline and travel space’s shift to “modern retailing practices” and simplify the complexity of travel payments, according to a Tuesday (Feb. 18)...
Planning and booking — and especially paying for — trips used to be a largely analog affair. Paper-based brochures and travel guides in hand, with excited phone calls to travel agents. Signed contracts, paper checks, navigating across everything from airlines to tour guides — it...
