Brooklyn Travel, a Scottish travel group with multiple brands, has selected a payment orchestration solution from BR-DGE to modernise its tech stack and expand the number of payment method choices it offers its end customers.
Glasgow-based Brooklyn Travel has signed a three-year deal for fellow Scottish trailblazer BR-DGE to become its sole payments orchestrator. Through the partnership, BR-DGE will maintain Brooklyn Travel’s connectivity to its existing payment partners, while providing additional resilience and transaction routing options through new acquiring connections.
BR-DGE also plans to provide access to new payment methods like instalment options, as well as pay-by-bank options which are growing in popularity with travel customers. 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.
“Travel is bouncing back in a big way, but with volumes rising, and customers demanding more payment choice, business growth can mean more payment integrations, complexities and pressures to manage,” explained Tom Voaden, VP of commercial at BR-DGE. “For businesses that have inherited a multitude of different tech stacks, it’s crucial to provide consistency in platform resilience, and the same seamless checkout experience to customers, no matter which travel brand they’re buying from. With BR-DGE, Brooklyn Travel will enjoy a simplified and streamlined payment process, and a reliable and consistent front-end experience for their customers.”
The partnership comes following a significant bounce back in global airline, cruise and hotel bookings. Predictions suggest that 2024 saw travel and tourism’s global economic contribution reach an all-time high, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council.
Ensuring growth amidst travel industry boom
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.
Duncan Wilson, CEO at Brooklyn Travel, commented: “At this exciting time in our journey, we needed a payment partner who could help us modernise, innovate, and support the ways our customers want to pay. We’ve found the perfect partner in BR-DGE, who will not only ensure connectivity to our existing acquirers but quickly facilitate new acquirers as well, along with enhanced platform resilience, and improved checkout experiences that can evolve with customer demand.”
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. 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.
