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Deep Dive: Travel, Hospitality Get A Millennial Makeover

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Millennials have long been sought-after travel and hospitality customers, partly because they are perfectly placed to seek such experiences. This unique status creates both opportunities and challenges for firms in the space, as millennials search for the experiences they crave. Furthermore, millennials are set to spend $1.4

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Homesharing Platforms Vie For Millennial, Gen Z Travelers

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They want convenient booking tools, fast payment methods and secure reservations when planning their trips, and these needs have not changed much as millennials have come of age. Competition is thus a multilevel event for hospitality services that need to juggle payment innovations, user perks and security.

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Deep Dive: How Customer Behaviors Drive Demand For Mobile Disbursement Innovation

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There has been similar growth in mobile disbursement interest in the business-to-business (B2B) space as well, especially as more millennial and Gen Z workers join firms’ staff. Millennials are among the top financial app users: 94 percent of surveyed millennials use P2P apps like Venmo and Zelle.

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How Younger Generations Impact Travel Marketplaces, Payments

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What this demographic wants out of peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplaces is changing, however, as more millennials become fully active members of the working world. Millennials are still spending money on trips and vacations, but how and where they do so is shifting. Millennials And Their Changing Travel And Payment Opinions.

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Travel Meets Connected Commerce

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This fact was recently illuminated by a Booking.com finding that 20 percent of customers will bail on a booking they’ve begun if denied usage of their preferred alt-pay method. Travel players on the leading edge are vying to stay there through payments innovation. Millennials will spend an estimated $1.4 Trillion Vacation.

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For Macy’s and Men’s Wearhouse, No Millennial Tux and Tails Tailwind

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It’s been chronicled in these virtual pages that millennials are the driving force behind change – change in how payments are done, how banking is banked, how social media influences commerce (or doesn’t) and how shopping may become a hybrid of high touch across the digital and physical realms. Now that seems to be true even in fashion.

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Splitty Makes It Easier To Grab A Piece Of The Travel Industry

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Travel industry services are catering to the thousands of millennial and Gen Z travelers who are booking big trips by augmenting their platforms with online and mobile support. Travel platforms are enabling more online bookings than ever, and 83 percent of U.S. Merchants Need To Rethink Booking.

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