Travel Payments

Trip.com Reports 270% Spike in Airline Bookings
Trip.com Reports 270% Spike in Airline Bookings
June 28, 2022  |  Retail

Chinese travel site Trip.com saw a 270% increase in air travel bookings in the past year as European and Asia Pacific countries lifted their COVID-19...

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Mastercard Teams With WhatsApp on Expanded Travel Services
Mastercard Teams With WhatsApp on Expanded Travel Services
June 23, 2022  |  Mastercard

With travel and travel spending on the rise, Mastercard is expanding its travel and lifestyle platform, the company announced Thursday (June 23). According to a...

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Travel Recovery in South Korea Makes Strong Case for Localized Payments
Travel Recovery in South Korea Makes Strong Case for Localized Payments
June 22, 2022  |  Travel Payments

Neither pandemic flareups nor inflation will deter adventurous South Korean travelers from booking travel in a recovery year, but it’s an advanced market that demands...

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HashCash Launches Blockchain-Based Travel Rewards Portal
HashCash Launches Blockchain-Based Travel Rewards Portal
June 21, 2022  |  Blockchain

Blockchain development platform HashCash Consultants is launching a blockchain-based travel rewards portal with an unnamed travel company, offering users “resort-style check-in at affordable rates,” among...

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Affirm, Agoda to Provide BNPL Travel Booking
Affirm, Agoda to Provide BNPL Travel Booking
June 13, 2022  |  Travel Payments

Approved travelers booking hotels through the Agoda platform will get a buy now, pay later (BNPL) option provided by BNPL provider Affirm under a new...

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Subscription Travel Brings Recurring Summer Fun to the Road and Skies
Subscription Travel Brings Recurring Summer Fun to the Road and Skies
June 11, 2022  |  Travel Payments

If we can subscribe to something like Apocabox — should the world end on a predictable monthly recurring billing schedule — why can’t we subscribe to more...

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The Digital Merchant 2022: Crypto Payments Take Travel in New Directions
The Digital Merchant 2022: Crypto Payments Take Travel in New Directions
June 07, 2022  |  Travel Payments

Disrupting traditional travel payments — a legacy ecosystem rife with opacity and inefficiency — is potentially a killer app for cryptocurrency, availing new ways to...

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PYMNTS AM Radar: Digital Brazil; Security for the Win; Check Fraud; You’ve Been Scammed; ICYMI
PYMNTS AM Radar: Digital Brazil; Security for the Win; Check Fraud; You’ve Been Scammed; ICYMI
June 02, 2022  |  Security & Fraud

Today is Thursday, June 2, and Britain is celebrating its longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, in her Platinum Jubilee year. For regular people, that means...

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Spirit Airlines Offers BNPL on Airfare
Spirit Airlines Offers BNPL on Airfare
June 01, 2022  |  Buy Now Pay Later

Spirit Airlines and Uplift, a buy now, pay later (BNPL) solution, are partnering to provide consumers with the ability to pay for flights in installments,...

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