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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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Airbnb: How To Win The $1.4T Battle For Millennials

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Airlines, hotels and homesharing platforms need strategies to satisfy the travel needs of four generations of jetsetters, each with different payment and booking preferences. For example, studies show that one in every five millennials would abandon travel booking processes if their preferred payment method was not offered.

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Why Flexibility’s The Ticket For Online Festival Booking Platforms

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The Booking Process. Consumers can begin the booking process by selecting a festival on the website – say, The Airbeat One Festival in Germany – and then arrive at a guide page. When customers are ready to book, they visit a festival shop page that shows the different ticket types (i.e., VIP tickets).

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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. Founded in 2017 by CEO Aziza Chaouachi, the app has been described as a “travel community and marketplace” that wants to help millennials travel for less. There are plans to launch in the U.S.

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Taking A Sharing Economy Approach To Hotel Booking

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It started as a simple online form: Users would fill out their destinations, the number of travelers in their group, their dates of travel and a bit of information on what they are like. That idea gradually morphed into Roost, which allows consumers to book a hotel and find a roommate. The Platform.

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Turns Out Millennials Buy Their Clothes On Amazon

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As retailers across categories fawn over shares of millennial spending power, new insight from market research and analytics firm Slice Intelligence indicates that, in terms of apparel market sales, one online retailer appears to have already won the battle. percent of online apparel sales go to millennials. Old Navy (5.1

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Digital Payments, Online Ordering And Memberships Top This Week’s News

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We have deep dives on digital payments, online ordering and memberships. Millennials Drive More to Faster Payments . Millennials and Gen Z are among the groups that are most likely to have received instant payments. From Online Ordering to Cupcake ATMs: How Sprinkles Prepared for the Pandemic.

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