Duffel is partnering with Katanox, a hospitality financial technology company, to simplify how hotels receive bookings and payments. The aim is to fix a chain that can leave travelers stranded at check-in and sellers chasing commissions months after checkout.
The partnership, announced Wednesday, will link Katanox’s hotel distribution and payment infrastructure to Duffel’s platform. The travel tech infrastructure company, which allows businesses to embed flight, hotel, and travel-extra bookings directly into their own apps or websites, is known most recently for powering travel for the likes of Robinhood and Meta’s AI agent Muse.
On hotels alone, Duffel’s scope spans 1.6 million properties worldwide. “It’s been staggering, the number of times where the customer arrives at the property and they don’t have the booking — the hotels can’t find it or weren’t getting the right reservation number. I’m hoping we can just put an end to it,” Duffel co-founder a
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