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Articles tagged “payments”

Business Travel

Travelport Is Diversifying With Strong Growth in Payments Tech

How is Travelport competing against much bigger companies like Sabre and Amadeus? By creating technology solutions its clients actually want to use while expanding in the world's fastest-growing regions for travel.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 6 years ago

Travelport Is Diversifying With Strong Growth in Payments Tech

Hotels

Airbnb Follows HomeAway’s Lead By Not Requiring Full Payments in Advance

As the professionalization of homesharing progresses, adding a payments feature such as this makes a lot of sense.

Deanna Ting, Skift | 6 years ago

Airbnb Follows HomeAway’s Lead By Not Requiring Full Payments in Advance

Business Travel

Business Travelers Rarely Use Virtual Payments In Another Sign of Companies’ Slow Adoption

Most companies still give their business travelers corporate cards or ask them to pay upfront for later reimbursement. Given the rapid development of mobile and virtual payment methods for consumers, corporate travel is lagging behind yet again.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 6 years ago

Business Travelers Rarely Use Virtual Payments In Another Sign of Companies’ Slow Adoption

Airlines

KLM Becomes Among the First Non-Chinese Airlines to Accept WeChat Pay

KLM is a little less reliant on Chinese customers than other major airlines, but it's good to see the Dutch carrier taking the chance on a new way of accepting payments. We're betting it'll work out well for KLM. And we suspect other airlines will follow.

Brian Sumers, Skift | 7 years ago

KLM Becomes Among the First Non-Chinese Airlines to Accept WeChat Pay

Online Travel

Travel Payments Sees $10.4 Billion Merger That Makes Worldpay a Stronger Competitor

Vantiv's $10.4 billion acquisition of Worldpay creates a payments-processing powerhouse with a huge hand in helping travel businesses boost online and mobile purchases. Due to competition from new rivals, fees are unlikely to spike yet.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 7 years ago

Travel Payments Sees $10.4 Billion Merger That Makes Worldpay a Stronger Competitor

Ground Transport

Transport for London’s Adoption of Contactless Payments Really Worked

Identifying payment trends among consumers not only improves the customer experience but also allows businesses to create new operating models built around the improved speed and ease of transacting.

Dave Montali, Skift | 7 years ago

Transport for London’s Adoption of Contactless Payments Really Worked

Online Travel

Kayak and Amazon Echo Now Offer Voice-Powered Hotel Booking

Kayak is the first online travel player to let shoppers book hotels via Amazon's smart speakers. While the concept has promise, its price comparison process still has to improve before it becomes useful to the average traveler.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 7 years ago

Kayak and Amazon Echo Now Offer Voice-Powered Hotel Booking

Online Travel

New Skift Research Report: The State of Consumer Payments in Travel 2017

Consumer adoption of new payment methods and devices for settling purchases is the main driver of adoption by companies. Yet travel companies can gain a valuable competitive advantage by predicting trends in payments and making payments as easy as possible for everyone.

Dave Montali, Skift | 7 years ago

New Skift Research Report: The State of Consumer Payments in Travel 2017
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Business Travel

Why a Seamless Payment Strategy Is Key to Selling More Ancillary Services

Travel providers who want to provide customers with a seamless travel experience should no longer think of the payment process as an afterthought.

worldpay + Skift | 7 years ago

Why a Seamless Payment Strategy Is Key to Selling More Ancillary Services

Online Travel

Travelport’s Bet on a Commercial Payments Business Begins to Pay Off

While Travelport is best known as a middleman for selling airplane tickets, its fastest-growing segment is in commercial payments. While payments competitors like Wex and Worldpay don't have to worry yet, they may have to soon.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 7 years ago

Travelport’s Bet on a Commercial Payments Business Begins to Pay Off