PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

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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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2017

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Millennials Drive More to Faster Payments . Millennials and Gen Z are among the groups that are most likely to have received instant payments. NEW DATA: Five Payments Innovations for Winning the Digital-First Shopper. Booking Holdings CEO Says Travel Recovery Will Take Years, Not Quarters. Trackers and Reports.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Some marketplaces are finding innovation in this space easier than others. Why Travel Firms Need To Cater To Millennial Payment Preferences. Millennials have a different take on travel than previous generations. This consumer group takes more trips than other generations, but takes longer to plan those trips as well.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

In 2015, the tech media was gaga over Snap and its ability to corral the so-called most valuable eyeballs in media: the millennial. It’s an inspiring story — and one that gets many an innovator out of bed to fight the good startup fight, even in the face of insurmountable odds. What a difference two years makes. Investors put $2.65

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A new generation of professionals have changed the way they travel for work and, as a result, how those employees want to book and pay for that travel. Generation Y (more commonly known as millennials) and Generation Z (those born between the mid-’90s and mid-2000s) have already made major inroads in the labor market.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

But many luxury trips can run aground without effective and innovative payment solutions to help travelers meet and manage associated costs. And a significant share of luxury travelers express high levels of interest in using innovative payment solutions to fund their future vacations. Millennials make up about a third of the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

Talking cars that drive themselves and disembodied digital butlers are the stuff of sci-fi sitcoms and comic book movie franchises. As the report highlights, the trend is also visible among surveyed bridge millennial consumers, more than half of whom travel to and from work each day. Or at least they were. Voice Technology Accelerates.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2019

While many of these customers belong to the millennial and Gen Z age groups, and prefer to communicate via text or Messenger, companies in the sharing economy still need to maintain familiar channels, like contact lines, to satisfy older customers. How FashionPass is Innovating Clothing Rentals. About the Playbook.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

A bit younger than their millennial siblings and cousins, they’ve grown up totally mobile, and have idiosyncrasies that make them unique. Perhaps more than millennial cohorts, Gen Z is having a hot love affair with eCommerce and sharing platforms that specialize in and cater to their digital lifestyles. “I

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2018

And then there were the little Walt Disney Read-Along Books and Records, first released in 1965. Each book ran a tight 24 pages and came with a 7-inch record that read the story to its young owner. But though the Disney Read-Along Books and Records burned bright in consumer affections, they burned short.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2018

Prettier pictures lead to more sales for airlines — that’s the philosophy behind a growing bookings system that offers what Reuters called on Tuesday (June 5) a “more engaging visual approach to marketing” of tickets. carriers, and, of that, almost 100 percent is from baggage charges and booking changes.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

Make room for more contextual commerce and more retail innovation in the travel sector. Not only that, the report said, but “some flights google.com/travel will reveal what the price would have been if the flight had been booked months in advance and whether an increase (or decrease) in fare is imminent. I’m happily surprised.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

Small businesses, particularly those launched by younger entrepreneurs, are often assumed to be a key driver of B2B FinTech innovation as business owners seek sophisticated, automated technologies to run their businesses. “They weren’t reconciling their books on a monthly basis; they weren’t closing out accounts.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2019

As a 100-year-old staple of the hospitality industry, hostels remain one of the top lodging options where consumers are booking stays on the internet. Yet, as consumers start to expect faster service with more security, payments can be a major undertaking for booking sites. Payments and The Platform Economy.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

Many gyms have taken a page from Peloton’s book and started offering online classes, numerous restaurants have transformed themselves into meal kit businesses practically overnight, and sellers of physical goods have started shipping items directly to consumers’ doors, bypassing the physical stores altogether.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2019

Some want to book gear rentals close to the day or days they will need them, while others tend to plan over the longer term. Prices vary depending on availability (that is, seasonality) and location, though consumers who book for longer will get lower day rates, he said.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2018

Instead SSENSE has leaked out a name and reputation for itself by offering innovative — and often unusual — looks to its shoppers that blend high-end designer labels with what is coming in streetwear. Musicians, artists and chefs are among those who have been profiled on the site — and who fashion sense has been offered up to buyers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

Older customers might prefer human interaction and want nothing to do with automated help , while millennials or Gen Z might want to solve their issues through chat windows powered by AI. When it comes to activities like travel booking, customer service can also encompass avoiding payment and security frictions for property owners and buyers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2017

There’s little doubt that the home share sector is beginning to boom globally among business travelers, with millennials adopting the practice at a greater rate than their older counterparts (as millennials are wont to do). “[Airbnb] is getting serious with business-ready apartment program,” Kang told TechCrunch.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Not only are millennials turning to self-storage at a higher rate than their parents, he told PYMNTS, but the excess demand means many self-storage operators feel free to skimp on customer service, security and anything resembling even basic insurance. Get ready for more movement, innovation and disruption in this space.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2019

“Most of the company’s revenue comes from fee-paying franchisees and bookings. The rise of Oyo comes amid other innovations and disruptions in the world of online travel. Not only that, but eCommerce innovators are taking new approaches to hotel reservations. Retail Influences.

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JULY 6, 2018

Marketplaces such as Glamping Hub see that glamping is popular with two segments in particular: baby boomers and millennials. Another segment, millennials, are looking for unique destinations that can lend themselves to Instagram and other social media channels. The Great Outdoors.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2017

Millennials and Generation Y have grown up with cybercrime, the executive stated, and parents must have “another type of talk” with their kids: the online safety and security talk, as Volmar termed it. When asked what innovation he expected but had not yet seen, Volmar replied, “I would have thought that there would have been U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

Today, few travelers would go to an agent to book a flight – they’d just do it themselves online. The company was built on the belief that, if Amazon could do it for books, why couldn’t they do it for food? Ordering dinner wasn’t like ordering a book. Millennials have grown up with the technology; they expect and even demand it.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

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.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

This innovation ushered in a sea change for consumers, content producers and content distributors. Millennials loved it even more: Only 57 percent reported watching primetime TV live that year, opting instead to watch prerecorded and/or streaming video or to play video games. From Time Shifting to Place Shifting.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 3, 2018

That's what I thought about while reading a recent Financial Brand post about Innovation in Banking: Killer Ideas? How do we balance strategic direction, customer demand, and the futurist or wildly over-caffeinated millennial that tells us we have to implement every shiny new object or we'll die? Online book stores.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The youngest of the bridge millennials – those 30- to 40-year-olds who today represent the first generation of connected consumers with spending power – will be having their mid-life crises at the age of 50. And in certain categories, such as books, auto parts and electronics, Amazon’s share of spend is decimating that of retail stores.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

An attitude which has left the sector in something of an innovative dead zone until quite recently. The customer doesn’t need to endure a lengthy back-and-forth over the phone or a home visit to schedule a move — they go online or on mobile, enter a date and some basic information about their move and book it like an Uber ride.

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William Mills

APRIL 20, 2017

Rodrigo Lopez, MBA Chairman, and Steve Case, Chairman and CEO of Revolutions LLC and AOL Co-Founder, kicked off the conference discussing Case’s book, The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future. This discussion focused on the intersection of the digital and physical worlds and innovation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2019

Sanctuary Ventures , which describes itself as “the first global media lifestyle brand serving a horoscope/tarot/supernatural-seeking millennial audience,” recently raised $1.5 Texting is the language of millennials and younger people today, so we really wanted to harness that,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

Aided and abetted by mobile devices, apps and payments and logistics innovations have substantially improved the consumer’s digital shopping experiences. Amazon sold one, and only one, product: books. Payments innovators saw the mobile, digital future, too, and invested in ways to remove friction at checkout.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2018

Winnie – like so many tech innovations – started out as an attempt by its two co-founders to solve their own problems. A lot of younger millennial parents are turning to Google to find answers to these questions,” adds Halsall. “So And Winnie’s co-founders were something of a unique dynamic duo in Silicon Valley terms.

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