Value of payments data in travel loyalty / What defines a premium trip / Startup Stage: Travel Smarter

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Travel loyalty has a customer measurement problem—payments data is the fix Prashant Shah, VP of product management at Galileo Financial Technologies, argues travel loyalty programs must use payments data beyond credit cards to identify and retain high-value customers.

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