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Articles tagged “fintech”

Online Travel

Booking Holdings Boosts Discounting to Capture Bigger Share of Travel Budgets

Booking is placing a new emphasis on discounting versus its traditional reliance mostly on marketing. Expect more fintech and loyalty offerings.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Booking Holdings Boosts Discounting to Capture Bigger Share of Travel Budgets

Online Travel

Business Model Innovation Is the Hottest Thing in Online Travel

Innovation comes in many forms. Sometimes it's a new technology. But for a growing number of online travel companies, it's all about disrupting traditional business models.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Business Model Innovation Is the Hottest Thing in Online Travel

Online Travel

MakeMyTrip CEO on the Journey to Develop a Superapp for India

Undeterred by competition from global online travel companies, MakeMyTrip envisions to be the first port of call for Indian travelers. A travel superapp is definitely a step in the right direction towards this goal.

Peden Doma Bhutia | 2 years ago

MakeMyTrip CEO on the Journey to Develop a Superapp for India

Announcements

10 Skift Travel Megatrends That Have Endured Over Our 10 Years

These Megatrends over the years transitioned from future outlook to facts. You could look it up.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

10 Skift Travel Megatrends That Have Endured Over Our 10 Years

Travel Booking

Daily Podcast: Hopper’s Hotel Fintech Treat

Good morning from Skift. It's Wednesday, June 8, in New York City. Here's what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Rashaad Jorden | 2 years ago

Daily Podcast: Hopper’s Hotel Fintech Treat

Online Travel

Hopper Will Let Customers Pay a Fee to Leave the Hotel After Check-In for Any Reason

Hopper's leave-for-any-reason hotel offering would seemingly be attractive to many guests, but can also be a headache for hotels and open to abuse.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Hopper Will Let Customers Pay a Fee to Leave the Hotel After Check-In for Any Reason

Short-Term Rentals

Hopper and Expedia’s Vrbo Partner on Global Vacation Rentals

Hopper is deploying an oft-used playbook for getting its homes' business started. But a cancel-for- any-reason feature, still in development, could add a twist.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Hopper and Expedia’s Vrbo Partner on Global Vacation Rentals

Online Travel

Exclusive Amazon Partnership Could Broaden MakeMyTrip’s India Reach

Amazon is doing travel these days in India in its own image — as a way to build even greater traction for Amazon Pay. Hey Amazon, where to next?

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Exclusive Amazon Partnership Could Broaden MakeMyTrip’s India Reach

News Blog

Hopper Fintech Products Now Being Bought by 70 Percent of Its Ticket Bookers

A fascinating interview with Hopper founder and CEO Frederic Lalonde on A16Z's Future, with a deep dive on his thinking about superapps in travel and Hopper's potential path into becoming one. In it, a nugget that now 70 percent Hopper's revenues are coming from their add-on fintech produces, AND 70 percent of ticket bookers through…

Rafat Ali | 2 years ago

News Blog

Consumer Adoption of Buy-Now-Pay-Later In Travel Increasing Rapidly: Affirm’s Earnings

Affirm, the public buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) fintech company just reported its latest quarterly earnings, and some hint that BNPL is being rapidly adopted by the suppliers in travel AND increasing usage by the travelers. From the earnings call transcript: "The Travel and Ticketing segment has been outperforming expectations, and volume more than doubled year over year.…

Rafat Ali | 2 years ago