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📱 Click&Flat, a tourist rental agency in Barcelona, partners with Minut to integrate noise monitoring sensors for reducing noise complaints and fostering community relations. Minut's privacy-safe sensors trigger instant alerts to property managers for quick intervention upon excessive noise, without recording personal guest data. The tech also aligns with Airbnb and Icnea software, aiding in dispute resolution. Click&Flat CEO, Germán Minguell, emphasizes commitment to neighbor satisfaction and peace, while Minut sales manager, Leo López, highlights the importance of privacy-safe noise monitoring in short-term rentals.

✈ Payments specialist Hands In launched split payment technology on Air Europa's website in June of the previous year. Air Europa has since seen an increase of €3.8 million in incremental revenue, with 15,000 unique profiles using the new payment option. Group trips have generated €1.6 million in revenue and an 87.8% conversion rate when using split payments, while the feature for declined transactions due to insufficient funds has recovered €2.4 million with a 95.1% conversion rate. Upcoming enhancements include integrating PayPal, debit cards, and loyalty points with the split payment system.

🏖 Fliggy's 2024 BNPL Travel Insight report shows a 20% increase in booking volume for BNPL travel products compared to the previous year. Generation Z accounts for nearly 25% of users. Over 45% of hotel package purchases through BNPL were new customers. Outbound tourism shares climbed by 10%, with hotel booking fulfillment rates for outbound travel jumping 70% year-on-year. Top BNPL destinations were Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, the Maldives, New Zealand, and Australia, with emerging destinations like Iceland and Kenya gaining popularity. Live streaming sales and KOL promotions on Fliggy increased by 70%, with 19 items exceeding RMB10 million in sales during the 2024 Double 11 festival.

🏖️ Lastminute.com partners with fintech company Zilch to launch Zilch Travel, a platform for flexible travel bookings and payments. The partnership leverages lastminute.com's Dynamic Packages technology and connects to its API and incentive platform, Roiward. Users can earn 3% rewards on trips, with interest-free payment options over six weeks or three months. In 2023, UK consumers spent over £72 billion on overseas holidays. Zilch's Pay over 3 Months product has driven sales on its platform to over £3.6 billion and doubled its revenues for three consecutive years.