Category: Travel Technology

Why Brazil’s eVisa Re-Launch Is a Big Deal for OTAs Brazil quietly flipped the switch back to a mandatory electronic visa (eVisa) for citizens of the United States, Canada, and…

Saudi Arabia’s eVisa has transformed how pilgrims and leisure travelers enter the Kingdom—and 2025 brings a handful of policy tweaks that every applicant should know. Whether you are planning a…

India welcomed nearly 7 million international visitors on eVisas in 2024 alone, and the Ministry of Home Affairs has doubled-down on digital entry permits for 2025. If you plan to…

The commercial potential of digital visa processing is no longer a nice-to-have. A 2024 IdeaWorksCompany study estimates that compliance-related ancillaries (visas, ETAs and health passes) will top $8.4 billion in…

Modern travelers expect answers in minutes, not hours—especially when a missing eVisa can derail an entire trip. Yet most airline, OTA, and tour-operator contact centers still treat visa queries as…

Collecting passport scans, itinerary details, and biometric photos is unavoidable when selling visas online. Yet the very information that enables border clearance also triggers the strictest data-protection rules in the…

Visa data may travel the world long before the passenger does – moving from your booking engine to a document-verification service, through payment processors and finally to border-control systems. Each…

Imagine landing in Bali only to discover your passport will expire halfway through your surf retreat—or worse, while you’re waiting for a connecting flight home. Few travel setbacks are more…

Millions of e-visa and passport photos are rejected every year, and 70 percent of those knock-backs are now flagged by fully automated image-verification engines rather than human clerks (source: ICAO…

In 2025, metasearch brands handle more than half of all leisure-travel sessions—but margins keep sliding as suppliers tighten commission and paid-media costs rise. A new revenue line is urgently needed,…