{"id":129484,"date":"2025-10-06T06:24:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotelrunner.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=129484"},"modified":"2025-10-30T03:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:45:22","slug":"hotelrunner-visa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/hotelrunner.com\/en\/news\/partnerships\/hotelrunner-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"HotelRunner and Visa Partner Globally to Power Embedded and Autonomous Finance in Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>LONDON, October 7, 2025<\/strong> \u2014 HotelRunner, a leading travel and hospitality technology platform, and Visa, a global leader in digital payments, have announced a global strategic preferred partnership to empower businesses of all sizes across the travel and hospitality industry. The collaboration brings together Visa\u2019s trusted global infrastructure and secure cross-border payments capabilities with HotelRunner\u2019s deep presence and extensive reach in hospitality technology. Solving the \u201clast-mile\u201d challenge in tourism and democratizing financial access for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets, HotelRunner is collaborating with Visa to provide robust technology infrastructure and B2B connectivity that enables accommodation providers, from boutique hotels in Morocco to guesthouses in Bali, to get paid quickly and securely across borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By uniting their strengths, the two companies aim to accelerate economic growth across the global travel and hospitality ecosystem while delivering seamless, secure, and scalable financial solutions. This partnership sets the foundation for a new era of embedded finance with a specific focus on independent hotels by providing access to global payment rails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTravel runs on trust, and trust depends on secure, reliable infrastructure,\u201d said Ali Beklen, Founder and Managing Partner of HotelRunner. \u201cBy combining HotelRunner\u2019s global hospitality network with Visa\u2019s unmatched expertise, we are building the autonomous financial infrastructure of travel. This is not only about payments; it is about building the financial rails that will power the next decade of global tourism. We are reshaping the future of cross-border travel commerce, making it safer, smarter, and more inclusive for businesses worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On this partnership, Arden Agopyan, Founder and Managing Partner of HotelRunner, said,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHotelRunner has spent more than a decade building the digital backbone of hospitality. For too long, small and independent accommodations and travel agencies have been excluded from global financial flows and the payments economy. Together with Visa, we&#8217;re changing that. We&#8217;re combining our reach and reliable platform with one of the world\u2019s most trusted networks to create a new standard for autonomous, secure, seamless, and scalable travel payments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur collaboration with HotelRunner demonstrates how together we can drive innovation across the B2B travel ecosystem. By combining Visa\u2019s trusted global payments network with HotelRunner\u2019s hospitality platform, we\u2019re enabling travel businesses to connect, transact, and grow more seamlessly and securely. Together, we\u2019re helping to unlock new opportunities, and strengthen the global travel ecosystem\u201d Tania Platt, Global Head of B2B Travel, Visa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Operating across worldwide markets, the collaboration will bring Visa and HotelRunner together with key travel companies in Europe, APAC, the Middle East, Africa, and beyond. This partnership is just the beginning as Visa and HotelRunner will roll out innovative embedded and autonomous finance services to support millions of travel businesses worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<style>.hellobar-visa { display:none; }<\/style>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":129485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","news_type":[438],"class_list":["post-129484","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_type-partnerships"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotelrunner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/129484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotelrunner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotelrunner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotelrunner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotelrunner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotelrunner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotelrunner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotelrunner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=129484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}