Immediately, Quasar Expeditions, an-award successful tour operator for luxurious and journey ocean journey, introduced it has chosen Flywire Company (Flywire) (Nasdaq: FLYW), a world funds enablement and software program firm, as its unique funds associate. The partnership will improve the fee expertise for Quasar’s rising clientele and supply seamless integration into the corporate’s reserving system for environment friendly fee processing and reconciliation. With the addition of Quasar to its rising shopper roster, Flywire is deepening its presence within the ocean experiences subsector, which helps to gasoline the general development of Flywire’s journey enterprise.
Voted by Journey + Leisure because the #1 Intimate-Ship Ocean Cruise Line for 8 consecutive years (2018 – 2025), in addition to the #2 Tour Operator of 2024, Quasar has spent virtually 4 many years serving those that search well-appointed lodging, unparalleled adventures, five-star cultural delicacies, and awe-inspiring wildlife encounters. Offering experiences in Galapagos, Patagonia, Chile, Ecuador, or Peru, Quasar guarantees genuine experiences and lifelong reminiscences, and Quasar vacationers turn out to be not solely expedition fans, however conservators.
To align with its development and higher serve its prospects, Quasar Expeditions sought to improve its funds expertise and transition away from its legacy supplier. Particularly, Quasar sought a platform designed to deal with the distinctive challenges of journey funds, that would rectify a number of the hidden pricing and customer support points that arose with its earlier supplier. Quasar chosen Flywire for its sturdy international fee community, which not solely eliminates hidden prices but in addition offers vacationers a seamless expertise—they’ll see clear pricing, monitor funds in actual time, and obtain around-the-clock multilingual help if points come up. Now, Quasar can present its discerning clientele a seamless, safe, and extremely localized fee expertise, accommodating a big selection of currencies and fee strategies.
Flywire was additionally chosen for its sturdy integration with PEAK 15, the multi-day tour operator software program that Quasar makes use of for bookings, accounting, and extra. This seamless integration enhances Quasar’s potential to automate the reconciliation processes, scale back administrative complexities, and in the end scale back back-office friction. It additionally permits Quasar to serve not solely its international prospects but in addition its personal geographically dispersed staff, which operates concurrently from workplaces all over the world utilizing the platform. Finally, this partnership reinforces Quasar’s dedication to delivering unparalleled service from reserving to disembarkation.
“Having seen Flywire’s confirmed success with different main luxurious journey manufacturers, we have been assured of their profound understanding of the sector and their potential to deal with our particular fee challenges,” said Linda Andersson, Reserving and Buyer Service Supervisor at Quasar Expeditions. “Our expertise with Flywire has been distinctive; each our company and employees constantly reward its intuitive ease of use, and the shopper help can’t be beat. Whereas the know-how is strong, it is their devoted staff that makes all of the distinction.”
Ocean-based journey experiences, similar to yacht charters, liveaboards and expedition cruises, have helped make this subsegment among the many quickest rising of Flywire’s journey enterprise. Ocean-based experiences cater to luxurious vacationers trying to mix journey, exclusivity, and environmental immersion. The expansion of Flywire’s ocean experiences enterprise has additionally fueled growth into new geographic areas, similar to Chile and Indonesia, the place Flywire has signed a lot of new purchasers which can be targeted on diving experiences and expeditions. To additional optimize the fee expertise, Flywire has just lately invested in local-language shopper help devoted to Bahasha Indonesian-speaking purchasers within the area, and has enhanced its integration capabilities with Tour Amigo, a reserving system constructed particularly for multi-day journey with many consumers all through Indonesia.
“Ocean expertise suppliers, like Quasar Expeditions, function inside a fancy international panorama that calls for a funds answer able to dealing with various currencies, myriad native fee strategies, and stringent regulatory necessities throughout borders,” mentioned Colin Smyth, SVP and GM of Journey at Flywire. “Our platform is uniquely positioned to fulfill these challenges head-on by offering a extremely localized and safe fee expertise that simplifies cross-border transactions, accelerates reconciliation, and in the end enhances the shopper journey. We perceive the intricacies of the journey sector, enabling us to assist our companions ship the seamless service their luxurious purchasers count on.”
To be taught extra about Flywire’s options for the journey business go to: https://www.flywire.com/industries/journey
About Flywire
Flywire is a world funds enablement and software program firm. We mix our proprietary international funds community, next-gen funds platform and vertical-specific software program to ship crucial and sophisticated funds for our purchasers and their prospects.
Flywire leverages its vertical-specific software program and funds know-how to deeply embed throughout the present A/R workflows for its purchasers throughout the schooling, healthcare and journey vertical markets, in addition to in key B2B industries. Flywire additionally integrates with main ERP methods, similar to NetSuite, so organizations can optimize the fee expertise for his or her prospects whereas eliminating operational challenges.
**Not together with Flywire’s Invoiced and Sertifi acquisitions
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