Brazilians spent $14.53 billion (BRL 72.57 billion) abroad during their international travels in 2023, according to the BCB, up 19.3% compared with the year prior. Brazil will also be home to the world’s third-most-penetrated cross-border buyer market this year, behind only Singapore and Canada, per our forecast. Listen Next. Around the World: Economic effects on retail and ecommerce.
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| Feb 9, 2024
Cards have considerable room to grow in these areas, where recurring spending won’t dissipate and there’s considerable customer interest, per our 2022 US Cash-Back and US Premium Travel Credit Card Emerging Features Benchmark studies. Leisure travel, where spending has remained consistent, could be an exception.
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| Feb 28, 2023
By comparison, the entire travel industry will spend $6.79 billion in 2023. Behind the Numbers.
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| Sep 27, 2023
For instance, there are measurement partners that specifically track travel bookings, another for brand lift, another for social sentiment, another for brand safety. Managing that many partners and evaluating so many disparate metrics is adding to overhead and workloads of marketing professionals. Many experts are also expressing concern with Google’s Privacy Sandbox.
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| May 13, 2024
The platform launched with personal finance content on credit cards, banking, loans, insurance, and investing, but Time hopes to expand into other ecommerce categories, including home, consumer tech, travel, and fashion. As this is Time’s first venture into ecommerce, it’s smart to leverage its established reputation as a publisher into the product recommendation space.
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| May 31, 2023
Its partnership with Airbnb can help it tap the travel marketplace’s huge reach as users seek more flexibility to pay for trips. A tie-in with Buddy, a personal finance app that targets Gen Zers and millennials, builds out Klarna’s open banking business. And agreements with Citcon and Ingenico can boost Klarna’s use at digital and in-store checkouts.
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| May 30, 2023
Travel demand is booming. Domestic tourism during the Lunar New Year rose 23% YoY, reaching 89% of its 2019 level, per China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Domestic tourism revenues rose 30% YoY, to 375.8 billion yuan ($55.79 billion). Brands and retailers ranging from Nivea owner Beiersdorf and Walmart to Ralph Lauren noted an uptick in demand and traffic from Chinese consumers, per Reuters.
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| Mar 7, 2023
Pop-ups are no longer low-cost attention-getters: Rising costs and low vacancy rates are forcing brands to look for new tactics to build buzz on a budget.
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| Oct 9, 2024
Gaining momentum: Walmart’s membership perks—which include free access to Paramount+, travel benefits, and discounts on gas in addition to free shipping on online orders—are resonating with consumers.
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| Aug 22, 2024
Note: eMarketer data includes products or services ordered using the internet, regardless of the method of payment or fulfillment; excludes travel and event tickets, payments such as bill pay, taxes, or money transfers, food services and drinking place sales, gambling and other vice goods sales.
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| Dec 8, 2023
That was before the pandemic, but there are signs that China’s tourism industry is on the mend after the country lifted its severe COVID-19 restrictions. Domestic travel is already back at 90% of pre-pandemic levels, per Bloomberg, and inbound travel will likely surge in September/October thanks to promotional campaigns.
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| Aug 14, 2023
The gaps in our intellectual capabilities involve difficulties in solving specific problems like climate change, disease, and space travel. Instead of building AGI, humans could put more resources into small, focused AI models adept at specific use cases like discovery of new drugs and materials while ensuring we maintain control over AI.
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| Apr 4, 2023
To stand out in a crowded commerce market, Lyft Media is thinking about partnerships and measurement differently. While its current partnerships help Lyft Media navigate “traditional ecosystem of measurement,” the network is also thinking about what the next phase of measurement will be, said Shane Dwyer, head of sales at Lyft Media and Lyft Business.
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| Oct 28, 2024
We expect to see more travel and hospitality businesses and quick-service restaurants follow suit to take advantage of large digital and in-person audiences. 2. Not every RMN will be able to rise above the clutter and scale. It’s difficult to keep track of just how many retail media networks (RMNs) are out there right now.
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| Jan 16, 2024
In Travel, Three Forks Ranch's "Luxury & Adventure" 30-second spot outperformed by 1,060%. For Pharma Rx, Omnipod's "Bath Time and Pizza" 15-second ad was 459% more effective than average. Our take: By targeting category-specific themes, using innovative creative,, and driving immediate consumer engagement, brands can boost TV ad effectiveness in this results-driven era.
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| Jul 19, 2024
My signal is travel over the Memorial Day weekend, AAA expected nearly 44 million people to travel during that weekend, which was up 4% year over year. The TSA said that they hit a record all time high with a number of passengers screened in a single day. That was on Friday. And the AAA survey also found that a good chunk of Gen Z and millennials said that their travel plans were tied to events.
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| Jun 5, 2024
Are you a technology or travel retailer? Great news: In addition to retail, Microsoft and Roku studied your customers’ behaviors, too. For more on how you can integrate these three opportunities into your next strategy planning session, download the full white paper, “Reimagining Cross-Channel Measurement.”.
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| May 23, 2023
“CTV ad dollars travel down a long and winding road,” wrote our analyst Ross Benes in our Connected TV Explainer report. And knowing what kind of inventory advertisers are actually buying isn’t simple either.
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| Nov 8, 2023
So I do wonder if there's something there considering these offhand relationships that are popping up in the travel industry. It's interesting. Sara Lebow:. And you have Expedia have partnering with OpenAI to have ChatGPT powered plugins. So that's something happening on an entirely different side of that travel world where I think all of these travel guys are getting into advertising in a new way.
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| Jul 19, 2023
Travel check-ins, dining reservations, and other notifications in the messaging app can be sent directly to Wallet, starting with partnerships with Vietnam Airlines, Spain-based Renfe, and reservation service TagMe. Save company IDs. Google will add support for corporate IDs later this year. Google’s opportunity: These features can resolve pain points and meet consumer demands.
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| Jun 2, 2023
The cohort views it as a tool to simplify their lives—to edit essays, check code, and plan travel itineraries, among other tasks. Gen Z spends the most time on social media. Gen Zers ages 18 to 24 spend more time on Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat than any other age group, according to our forecast.
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| Jan 4, 2024
Travel and ticketing, which makes up 16% of its gross merchandise volume, shot up 62% YoY in Q3. But consumer electronics declined 8% YoY, and the home and lifestyle category slumped 10% YoY. Affirm’s biggest drop came in the sporting goods and outdoor category, which plummeted 48% YoY. This is largely due to Peloton’s interminable volume slide.
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| May 11, 2023
The environmental fallout includes economic disturbances such as factory shutdowns, higher risk for insurers, disrupted tourism industries, supply chain havoc, property damage, network outages, and food-price inflation. Increasing climate-related regulation internationally means demand for effective climate technologies will rise over the long term.
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| Apr 27, 2023
Vacation budgeting: Last week, Citi rolled out Citi Flex Pay, a buy now, pay later (BNPL) offering on its travel booking platform. What percentage of Gen Zers used BNPL for their most recent travel purchase? A) 3%. B) 14%. C) 21%. D) 35%. Only 3% of Gen Zers have used BNPL for their most recent travel purchase, according to an August 2024 report by Hopper. September 10, 2024.
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| Aug 26, 2024
Jamie Dimon told attendees: "We use [AI] for prospect, marketing, offers, travel, note-taking, idea generation, hedging, equity hedging and the equity trading floors, anticipating when people call in what they're calling it for, [and] on the wholesale side, answering customer requests.".
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| Jun 4, 2024