Tony Loeb

📌 UATP, a global payment network, partnered with corporate lodging platform HRS, now a UATP Merchant, facilitating UATP payments for business travelers and crews. The partnership marks UATP's first significant move into hotel acceptance. HRS offers business-travel ready hotels with corporate rates, invoice automation, and financial reporting, addressing a primary expenditure in corporate programs. This integration was announced before UATP's Airline Distribution® 2025 in Budapest on March 19. HRS's AI-powered technology provides booking, payment, and hotel trend tracking, while UATP specializes in payment processing and data services.

📌 UATP, a global payment network, partners with HRS, a corporate lodging and payment technology platform, to accept UATP payments and offer corporate rates through HRS' AI-powered platform. This partnership marks UATP's first major move into hotel acceptance, announced just before UATP’s Airline Distribution® 2025 event in Budapest. UATP and HRS' combined services aim to streamline hotel booking, payment, and financial reporting for business travel, leveraging HRS’ automated payment processes for better efficiency and compliance.

🌮 Taco John’s implemented Flybuy’s Smart Fire technology, leading to a 70% increase in mobile order sales, a 10% reduction in delivery driver wait times, and a 23% decrease in missing or incorrect orders. The integration ensures the freshness of orders for pickup, drive-thru, and delivery by predicting preparation times and alerting kitchen staff upon customer proximity. The technology has enhanced customer satisfaction and operational efficiency, driving growth in Taco John’s order-ahead business.

📌 The use of AI for trip planning doubled from 8% to 16% between October 2023 and October 2024, according to Deloitte's 2025 travel industry outlook. Excluding boomers, the rate for GenAI in trip planning surged from 10% to 21%. Among millennials earning over $100,000, usage reached 29%. Over 40% of GenAI users booked the accommodations it recommended. Nearly half (46%) of travelers still prefer human hotel check-ins, while about a third favor human interaction for room service (35%) and local recommendations (37%).

📌 UATP, a global payment network, announced HRS as a new merchant, enabling UATP payments for business travelers and groups with HRS' corporate lodging technology. This partnership marks UATP's first large-scale hotel acceptance, offering direct access to HRS' business-travel ready hotels and integrated invoice automation, billing, and reconciliation. Announced one day before UATP’s Airline Distribution® 2025 event in Budapest, the collaboration aims to create an ecosystem for business travel, optimize corporate account holders, and expand UATP's footprint amidst rising corporate travel demand. HRS' AI-powered platform technology and UATP's payment expertise offer enhanced automation and reporting for corporate travel managers.