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Global bookings are at record highs, yet industry EBITDA is lagging. Bridge the Risk Gap – the window between booking and payout – with financial infrastructure designed to neutralise volatility and protect your bottom line.
4 ways you're leaking profit
The era of free margin is over. Operators in 2026 must engineer profit directly from their core activity.
Neutralise volatility
Match currency inflows with outflows to stop the Risk Gap from quietly evaporating your season’s results. Benefit from customised FX hedging solutions.
Eliminate operational friction
Bypass the SWIFT chain to move from 20–day payout cycles to fast settlement with local payment rails. Use virtual cards to secure inventory in real–time and automate reconciliation.
Empower strategic scalability
Shift the finance function from a back-office cost centre to a value-add growth partner. Leverage real–time visibility and automation to scale revenue and keeping finance headcount flat.
Maximise capital velocity
Stop letting capital sit stagnant in slow banking cycles – centralise your global liquidity to accelerate your reinvestment cycle and fund faster expansion.
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Global financial infrastructure for the travel industry
Travel agencies and booking sites
Settle in like-for-like currencies to avoid the hidden FX bleed on thin-margin bookings.
Tour operators and DMCs
Collect payments in your clients’ preferred currencies, and efficiently pay on-the-ground travel partners across the world.
Corporate travel agencies
End expense chaos with integrated cards and real–time visibility for global T&E.
Travel marketplaces
Seamlessly pay out to hosts in the preferred currencies, while easily deducting your platform booking fees.
Travel case studies
How Flash Pack boosted its checkout experience and saved $250k in merchant fees
The Challenge
Flash Pack’s previous checkout solution, Flywire, pushed customers to an unbranded third-party checkout pop-up, which created unnecessary friction. This setup damaged customer trust in the brand, which affected conversions, as some customers abandoned their purchases at the pivotal moment. Each lost order had a significant impact on the company’s bottom line. What Flash Pack needed was a seamless, on-brand, and customer-focused checkout experience that would provide the level of service that customers expect from a premium product.
The Solution
Flash Pack’s switch to Airwallex unlocked new opportunities to improve the customer experience, optimise business operations, and free up time and resources to focus on business growth. Using Airwallex’s fully customisable checkout solution has enabled Flash Pack to tailor the UX and UI to its brand, creating a seamless, premium, and on-brand checkout. Flash Pack’s accounting, reservations, and checkout systems are now all integrated through Airwallex. Reconciling all of Flash Pack’s payments used to take 30 minutes each day – now it only takes a minute.
How Secret Food Tours empowers 700+ guides globally
The Challenge
As Secret Food Tours expanded to over 100 cities, their financial operations became increasingly fragmented. Paying hundreds of freelance guides and local vendors in different currencies was a major logistical burden, often involving slow SWIFT transfers and high fees. Payouts typically took up to 20 days after closing, damaging trust with partners, while manual reconciliation left nearly 30% of transactions unaccounted for. To support their global growth, they needed a unified system to eliminate payout delays, reduce FX costs, and gain real-time visibility over their international spending.
The Solution
Secret Food Tours’ move to Airwallex consolidated their global finance into a single, scalable platform. By using Airwallex’s local payout rails, they replaced 20 fragmented payment runs with one monthly workflow, cutting guide payout times from weeks to just 48 hours. The company also rolled out Airwallex Corporate Cards to over 700 guides and staff to handle tour expenses directly. This shift has automated their financial reporting, reducing unreconciled transactions from 30% to less than 2% and freeing the team to focus on launching new culinary experiences.
How Plum Guide streamlines its funds management
The Challenge
With its global customer base, Plum Guide receives funds from guests in multiple local currencies. In addition, it needs to service host payouts quickly in their local currency. This required Plum Guide to use multiple traditional banks and brokers to manage funds and make FX transactions. This process was becoming even more complicated with Plum Guide’s plan to expand to 60 new destinations.
The Solution
Plum Guide is leveraging Airwallex’s global treasury and cost-effective international transfers to operate more efficiently and scale its operations faster. Plum Guide can now quickly and easily service global collections and payouts through Airwallex’s powerful global treasury infrastructure. This has streamlined Plum Guide’s financial operations, saving them considerable time and allowing them to focus on scaling their business. Using Airwallex for global treasury instead of multiple FX brokerages has streamlined Plum Guide’s financial reporting.
How WeSki boosted its bottomline through efficient payment infrastructure
The Challenge
The online platform is disrupting the ski travel industry with its online platform that allows skiers and snowboarders to discover, plan and book personalized ski holidays. The business faced challenges with efficiently collecting payments in multiple currencies from customers around the world. It was also getting complicated for them to handle payments to their ever-growing network of suppliers across various payment methods and terms. Their reliance on traditional banking solutions to manage international payments was proving to be costly and complex.
The Solution
Partnering with Airwallex has enabled WeSki to optimize multiple elements of their financial infrastructure using a single platform. WeSki now easily accepts funds from Braintree, a PayPal service, using Airwallex Global Accounts which allows them to efficiently manage multiple currencies and enjoy lower transaction costs. Airwallex also enables them to make fast, cost-effective international transfers at market-leading rates. Using virtual company cards, WeSki can now pay suppliers in minutes, directly from their held balances, while eliminating unnecessary FX conversion fees and surprise foreign transaction fees. By partnering with Airwallex, WeSki has been able to improve scalability, reduce operational costs and consequently boost their margins.
How Authentic Vacations saved $10k a month on FX
The Challenge
Authentic Vacations provides a premium customer experience, but manual back-end supplier payments were eating into their profit margins. High cross-border fees and fragmented processes for paying European suppliers in multiple currencies caused significant delays. They needed a streamlined solution to cut FX costs and make their business transactions as seamless as their front-end customer journey.
The Solution
Airwallex transformed Authentic Vacations’ operations by replacing slow global bank transfers with local payment rails, reducing settlement times from days to hours. By integrating directly with NetSuite, they automated their accounting and eliminated manual administrative burdens. The result is a well-oiled payment process that has significantly reduced FX fees and improved financial efficiency across the business.
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Pay travel suppliers
Fortify your global payouts against friction
Secure margins with virtual cards
Issue virtual cards across geographies using one API and fund them directly from multi-currency balances to save on FX fees.
End expense chaos
Set specific cards limits, expiry dates, and MCC controls to reduce fraud and ensure funds are used appropriately.
Access flexible interchange and dedicated BINs
Select from variable interchange rates to increase acceptance rates and access dedicated Travel BINs for premium rebates.
Pay via bank transfer at interbank FX rates
For suppliers that don’t accept cards, send transfers faster and more cost-effectively than with traditional banks.
ACCEPT TRAVEL PAYMENTS
Neutralise volatility from the moment of booking
Offer popular global and local payment methods
Support 160+ payment methods, including cards, bank transfers, wallets, and buy now, pay later options. Display prices in local currency at checkout.
Eliminate FX bleed and leverage natural hedging
Collect and settle funds in the same currency with like-for-like settlement, and say goodbye to hidden conversion fees or the need to set up multiple entities.
Boost conversions and reduce chargebacks
Benefit from machine learning-powered optimisations to boost acceptance rates, smart 3DS logic, local acquiring, customisable risk thresholds, and more.
