Travel Payments

Travel Payments
Rho and Navan Integrate Corporate Cards, Travel and Expense Platform
May 24, 2024

Rho and Navan have launched a unified finance suite that customers can use to manage corporate travel and expenses, enforce expense policy compliance, send payments and close the books. This co-branded solution brings together the capabilities of Rho Corporate Cards and the Navan travel and expense super app, the companies said in a...

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Sabre Platform Helps Airlines Adopt ‘Offer and Order’ Retailing Strategy
May 22, 2024

Sabre has launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered retailing platform designed to enable airlines to adopt an “offer and order” approach. The new SabreMosaic platform allows airlines to offer a more personalized and dynamic retailing experience and create new revenue opportunities, the company said in a Wednesday (May 22) press...

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Emburse Adds Notifications of Better Hotel Rates for Business Travelers
May 14, 2024

Emburse now enables business travelers to receive automated notifications when there is a better rate available at their hotel or at a comparable hotel. These notifications are delivered within the Emburse Go Premier travel companion app and enable travelers to rebook without having to leave the app, the provider of travel and expense software said in a Tuesday...

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Citi Upgrades Premier Card As Travel Spending Takes Off
May 13, 2024

Citi is enhancing its Premier credit card to offer new benefits and protections for travelers. The banking giant’s Strata Premier card, announced Monday (May 13), offers increased benefits and more opportunities to earn rewards, and comes amid a surge in spending on travel across age and income...

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AAA: Memorial Day Road Trips Will Hit Record Numbers 
May 13, 2024

Americans are projected to take a record number of road trips this Memorial Day weekend. It’s part of an overall uptick in early summer travel forecast by the American Automobile Association (AAA) in new data released Monday (May 13). “We haven’t seen Memorial Day weekend travel numbers like these...

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New Q1 Data Finds Older Demographics Driving Surge in Travel Spend
May 10, 2024

They’re probably not going to Paris to see Taylor Swift. But spending among older, high-income consumers has led a Q1 travel surge that cuts across income and age boundaries, even if “Swiftonomics” isn’t part of the trend. A deep dive into PYMNTS Intelligence’s most recent “Last Transactions“...

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Booking.com Forms Virtual Card Partnership With WEX
April 25, 2024

Global commerce platform WEX has launched a virtual card partnership with Booking.com. The new arrangement, announced in a news release Thursday (April 25), expands on the two companies’ 11-year-old partnership, with WEX becoming Booking.com’s virtual card provider and WEX’s payment solutions supporting Booking.com’s travel-related products and services sales. “Building...

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Wyndham Expects Consumer Confidence to Fuel Summer Travel
April 25, 2024

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is developing a record-high number of rooms amid its anticipation of a healthy summer season. The hotel chain released earnings Thursday (April 25) showing it has 243,000 rooms in its development pipeline, an 8% increase year-over-year, primarily at the company’s “midscale...

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New Airline Refund Requirements Put Spotlight on Instant Digital Disbursements
April 24, 2024

Air travel is a complicated business — and those complications can get passed down to travelers. From extended delays when waiting for refunds after abrupt flight cancellations, to spending hours and even days haggling with airline customer service staff, U.S. consumer frustrations with the airline...