As more businesses and government agencies continue to add vaccine mandates for their employees or guests because of the continuing spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus, the airline industry is embracing what it believes could be the return of business travel this fall....
Vacation rental management platform Vacasa is going public as part of a deal with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) TPG Pace Solutions, according to an announcement. The combined company will be traded under the ticker symbol “VCSA” when the acquisition is complete. The transaction provides...
United travelers now have the option to preorder food and beverages, according to a press release from the company. Customers, regardless of which cabin they fly in, can use the United app to preorder meals, snacks and beverages up to five days before they fly,...
U.K. FinTech Revolut is moving into travel with a new booking tool that gives customers 10 percent instant cashback on reservations. Revolut Stays is now available to customers in the U.K. with plans to expand the booking feature across Europe and the U.S. The FinTech...
Google is launching new tools to help the travel industry as the sector recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, per a Wednesday (July 14) blog post from the company. Travel Insights with Google was initially rolled out in the Asia Pacific region in December 2020 for...
Almost a year and a half into a global pandemic and forecasts for the travel segment are hard to make as recovery remains uneven. In some places, infection levels are falling in the face of widespread vaccination, while in other places, infection rates continue to...
International and domestic travel was up in May but still lower than the levels seen before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, according to a report from the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The data showed “marginal improvements” in May compared to April but overall, the number of...
The travel market is an unusual space to watch in terms of its recovery and how lopsided it is in many directions. Domestic consumer travel in the states, Hopper CEO Fred Lalonde said, has roared back with a vengeance and appears by all accounts to...
While the pace of recovery in the U.S. has been relatively swift as COVID-19 vaccines have reached the public quickly, the global pace of recovery has been quite a bit slower, beset by slow vaccine distribution and emerging new strains of the disease. Which means,...
