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WITH BR-DGE, BROOKLYN TRAVEL WILL ENJOY A SIMPLIFIED AND STREAMLINED PAYMENT PROCESS, AND A RELIABLE AND CONSISTENT FRONT- END EXPERIENCE FOR THEIR CUSTOMERS. holiday experiences from luxury escapes and family getaways to cruise holidays, bespoke tours and corporate travel solutions, its brand portfolio includes CruiseKings, Stewart Travel, Santa Claus Trips, Canterbury Travel, Destinology and Villa Select.
With its payment orchestration services designed to help acquisitive businesses integrate and streamline payment experiences across multiple brands, BR-DGE will provide a singular streamlined payment experience across all of the Brooklyn Travel group brands. This includes increased platform resilience, multi-acquiring connectivity and smart volumebased transaction routing enabled from go-live – all through a single integration with BR-DGE.
As an independently-owned, vendoragnostic payment orchestrator, BR-DGE is fast becoming the go-to partner for highvolume enterprise merchants in the travel sector through its modular solutions. Brooklyn
Travel joins other major travel brands to have selected BR-DGE’ s payment orchestration services over the past year, including Kenwood Travel and Travel Counsellors, which have all selected BR-DGE to provide exceptional end-to-end online payment experiences, connectivity, smart routing, data analytics and tokenisation amongst other services.
By accessing BR-DGE’ s pioneering payment orchestration tech, Brooklyn Travel will gain access to BR-DGE’ s modular platform of over 400 payment methods, providers and solutions. The partnership between BR-DGE and Brooklyn Travel is primed to prosper from the huge bounce back in global airline, cruise and hotel bookings.
According to Mastercard research, despite ongoing economic pressures, the travel sector is flourishing, with nine out of the last 10 record-setting spending days in the global cruise and airline industry occurring during 2024. Commenting on the partnership, Tom Voaden, VP of Commercial at BR-DGE, said:“ We’ re proud that a fellow Scottish success story like Brooklyn Travel has chosen us at this pivotal point in their growth journey. Travel is bouncing back in a big way, but with
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