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Leavy App Raises $14M To Help Millennials Raise Travel Funds

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Paris-based startup Leavy.co , which offers a travel app to help millennials finance their travel plans, has raised $14 million. As a result of the funding, Pieter Welten, a partner at Prime Ventures, secured a seat on Leavy’s board. The company said its network has grown to more than 65,000 millennials , with 60 percent being women.

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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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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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Sharing Platforms Fight Fraud, Make Friends

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It’s a world that has sprung up around the spending power and tastes of millennials and Gen Zers, and it’s getting hard to keep track of all the available options. Enter the platforms, complete with algorithms and tools to discover and price-compare any experience or item that can be booked or rented online. Where’s the Trust?

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AI’s Place In The $50B RV Market

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Consumers are beginning to express more preferences regarding their buying and selling experiences on online marketplaces, which are seeing an increased amount of competition in the market as they attempt to hold onto their customer bases. Why Travel Firms Need To Cater To Millennial Payment Preferences.

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Millennials Reluctant To Give Personal Data, Businesses Depend On It

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Between the Instagram selfies, Twitter hashtags and Facebook posts, millennials seem to overshare. Their life is an open book on social media, and even the tiniest of details are never too much to provide. Millennials expect technology to intelligently know who they are, with any investigative work done on the back end.

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Why Hostelz.com Stopped Accepting Payments

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Dozens of sites and services enable customers to book stays online in their local currencies, making them particularly appealing for millennials seeking cheap accommodations. Homesharing platforms are also competing for young consumers’ attentions – millennials make up approximately 60 percent of Airbnb’s guests, for instance.

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