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Transitional travel benefits. Wealthier cardholders are saving rewards points to use later, Amex CFO Jeff Campbell said in late 2020. In response, issuers including Amex are re-emphasizing existing travel benefits and adding new ones, including hotel and resort booking rewards, domestic travel perks, and rental car offers.

Last year, retailers unleashed their Black Friday deals early in the week of Thanksgiving, and with travel constrained, many shoppers jumped on those deals on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Early deals are likely here to stay, but the resumption of holiday travel this year means there will be more shopping than buying in the days leading up to Thanksgiving.

Increased globalization and travel boosted cross-border buying and pushed SMBs to increase operations abroad, per Wise. Adding new currencies and localized payment methods, as Barclaycard has done, can help SMBs court these consumers. This is especially the case among shoppers in Asia-Pacific and Latin America, who make up the majority of cross-border buyers, says Adyen’s Dammeir.

., restaurant sales, restaurant delivery ordered online); travel sales; event ticket sales; payments, such as bill pay, taxes, or money transfers; gambling and other vice good sales.

It excludes travel and event tickets, tips and digital gifts, subscriptions, 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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All industries we track will increase their spending, with travel leading the way. Automotive will prop up the list with modest growth of just 7.8%. Travel’s sizable gains this year, though, will do little to help it regain much ground in its share of total digital ad spending. Pre-pandemic, travel spending accounted for 10.8% of the digital total.

Ecommerce platforms, social networks, digital video providers, product review sites, travel guides, and everything in between, all scrambled to implement at least some kind of livestreaming sales features for their users. Digital buyers in China have embraced the format with gusto, and providers have responded enthusiastically.

Money wasn’t an issue for many, either, with lower outlays on travel and outings meaning household goods were an appealing proposition. The government’s Coronavirus Job Retention scheme, which paid some workers a percentage of their normal wage while not working, also assuaged some income uncertainties. Ecommerce Buyers.

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Travel spending is predominant in search, so 2020 was likely to be a rocky year for the format. Our ad spend by industry forecasts from August last year were already painting a bleak picture for the travel sector—a 36.7% decline in digital ad spend in 2020—and our update later this year is unlikely to contain any significant upticks.

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This trend was in some ways forced on consumers during the pandemic, with travel limited and local shopping drags getting more traffic than usual. Consumers now see it as a good way to meet their sustainability aims. Shopping locally was a top consideration for being more sustainable among UK adults, cited by 55% of respondents in a July 2021 Hearts & Science survey conducted by YouGov.

Solutions introduced last year like Apple Family Card and wallet support for more transit systems could help the tech giant increase volume.

And many consumers were able to scratch their travel itch in Q3: Despite uneven growth, global travel spending hit $192 billion in July and August, per data from the US Travel Association—and airline companies like Delta Airlines experienced notable growth in Q3 profits. This likely contributed to the bump in Amex’s T&E billed business volume.

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