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Chinese Tourists Are Driving Global Payment And Retail Change

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That’s one of the driving ideas behind a new service that Marriott International recently launched for Chinese travelers going overseas — a service that also helps to demonstrate how the country’s growing tourist class is changing payments and retail. Last year, the U.S.-based The Fliggy Payment Feature. So is WeChat.

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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.

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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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Father’s Day, Commerce And The New Millennial Dad

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Children buy their fathers things like books and auto parts that don’t tend to show up so often on Mother’s Day, but it doesn’t quite cover the gap. In fact, recent data from Mintel indicates that millennial dads could be the future of retail. And those are very high spend categories; collectively they accounted for $6.6

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Google’s Latest Travel Move Could Boost Contextual Commerce

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Make room for more contextual commerce and more retail innovation in the travel sector. That’s the view from one of Google’s latest retail-associated launches, an airfare insight and travel recommendations offering. The travel industry also is the site of recent retail-oriented innovation. Contextual Commerce. Habibi asked.

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Standard International Launches Recommendations App

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Described as “the first social travel agency,” Benny (from the phrase “friends with benefits”) would allow people to recommend rooms to friends at the best rate, while also earning a commission. “We Lalvani said most of the firm’s expansion will be in Asia , where 60 percent of the world’s millennials are based.

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What Moved Movado About MVMT

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A lifestyle brand for millennial buyers with an eye for design – but perhaps not the pocketbook for designer prices – the watch and accessories startup MVMT started on its path in 2013. “I had goals just in terms of being successful, and I was sitting in a classroom essentially being asked to do a book report.