Articles tagged “fintech”

The airline's frequent flyer program was built to reward spending. JetBlue is using it as a pipeline to finance spending — and letting customers earn points for the privilege of paying interest.

Airbnb is selling peace of mind to guests, giving assurances to hosts, and potentially debuting a new fintech revenue stream that’s been so successful for Hopper. The issue is whether this will further alienate hosts, who deal with the logistical hassles of last-minute cancellations. 

The pandemic trained travelers to expect the worst, and now travel brands are capitalizing on that mindset.

Australia will test whether YouTrip’s pitch of cheaper travel actually lands in a market where many travelers already think they’re sorted. If it does, YouTrip could find plenty of room to grow across the region.

Pangea’s purchase of Overlap is an early wager that social trip-planning tools belong on a single platform — not scattered among dozens of niche apps.

Booking.com wants to engineer a future where payments unlock the full travel journey. As AI and agentic systems loom, it is making the case that the its future lies in easing friction, striving to be hyper-local, with fintech as a foundation.

Saving a basis point or two per transaction in Booking.com's payments business can turn into a windfall of millions of dollars. That's an edge that Booking.com is leveraging in payments, which are also central to its connected trip strategy.

Investor confidence in Upgrade suggests that BNPL in travel may be shifting from an optional feature to a required one, but it still has to prove it can weather the next credit cycle.

Revolut’s latest acquisition, Swifty, an AI startup bred from Lufthansa’s incubator, extends the fintech business’s reach into travel.

Loyalty programs are the biggest marketing avenues for the new-age Indian traveler, and ITC Hotels has decided to take things up a notch by incentivizing long-term loyalty.