Breakthrough payment orchestration provider BR-DGE has today announced a new partnership with Brooklyn Travel, a fast-growing Scottish travel group with multiple brands. This latest client win joins a growing roster of travel merchants who are turning to BR-DGE’s pioneering payment orchestration solution to modernise their existing tech stacks and expand payment method choice for their end customers through a single integration. 

Glasgow-based Brooklyn Travel has signed a three-year deal for fellow Scottish trailblazer BR-DGE to become its sole payments orchestrator. BR-DGE will maintain Brooklyn Travel’s connectivity to its existing payment partners and empower it with new acquiring connections to provide additional resilience and transaction routing options. BR-DGE will also provide access to new payment methods like instalment options and pay-by-bank options which are growing in popularity with travel customers.

Brooklyn Travel has been a trusted name in the travel industry since 1972, offering a diverse range of award-winning specialist travel brands. Renowned for delivering exceptional holiday experiences from luxury escapes and family getaways to cruise holidays, bespoke tours, and corporate travel solutions, their brand portfolio includes CruiseKings, Stewart Travel, Santa Claus Trips, Canterbury Travel, Destinology, and Villa Select.

With its payment orchestration services designed to help acquisitive businesses integrate and streamline payment experiences across multiple brands, BR-DGE will provide a singular streamlined payment experience across all of the Brooklyn Travel group brands. This includes increased platform resilience, multi-acquiring connectivity, and smart volume-based transaction routing enabled from go-live – all through a single integration with BR-DGE.

As an independently-owned, vendor-agnostic payment orchestrator, BR-DGE is fast becoming the go-to partner for high-volume enterprise merchants in the travel sector through its modular solutions. Brooklyn Travel joins other major travel brands to have selected BR-DGE’s payment orchestration services over the past year, including Kenwood Travel and Travel Counsellors, who have all selected BR-DGE to provide exceptional end-to-end online payment experiences, connectivity, smart routing, data analytics, and tokenisation amongst other services. By accessing BR-DGE’s pioneering payment orchestration tech, Brooklyn Travel will gain access to BR-DGE’s modular platform of over 400 payment methods, providers and solutions.

The partnership between BR-DGE and Brooklyn Travel is primed to prosper from the huge bounce back in global airline, cruise and hotel bookings. According to the World Travel & Tourism Council, 2024 is set to be a record-breaking year, with travel and tourism’s global economic contribution set to reach an all-time high of $11.1 trillion. According to Mastercard research, despite ongoing economic pressures, the travel sector is flourishing, with nine out of the last 10 record-setting spending days in the global cruise and airline industry occurring during 2024.

Commenting on the partnership, Tom Voaden, VP of Commercial at BR-DGE, says: “We’re proud that a fellow Scottish success story like Brooklyn Travel has chosen us at this pivotal point in their growth journey. Travel is bouncing back in a big way, but with volumes rising, and customers demanding more payment choice, business growth can mean more payment integrations, complexities and pressures to manage. For businesses that have inherited a multitude of different tech stacks, it’s crucial to provide consistency in platform resilience, and the same seamless checkout experience to customers, no matter which travel brand they’re buying from.  With BR-DGE, Brooklyn Travel will enjoy a simplified and streamlined payment process, and a reliable and consistent front-end experience for their customers.”

“From payment processing to fraud monitoring, smart routing and hybrid tokenisation services, BR-DGE’s payment orchestration pulls together all of these moving parts together to give travel platforms simplified integrations, more interoperability, speed to market, enhanced CX and new growth opportunities. ​We’re experiencing huge demand from travel businesses and enterprise merchants who recognise how our orchestration layers are creating new value, more business opportunities, and happier end customers.”

Duncan Wilson, CEO at Brooklyn Travel, says: “For more than 50 years, Brooklyn Travel has been helping our customers to explore the world through a growing array of brands tailored to differing travel experiences. We’ve come a long way over that time, having acquired several brands to widen the choice of travel experiences to our loyal customers, and a growing number of new customers too. At this exciting time in our journey, we needed a payment partner who could help us modernise, innovate, and support the ways our customers want to pay. We’ve found the perfect partner in BR-DGE, who will not only ensure connectivity to our existing acquirers but quickly facilitate new acquirers as well, along with enhanced platform resilience, and improved checkout experiences that can evolve with customer demand.”

BR-DGE brings together over 400 payment technology solutions in one place for the whole ecosystem, creating value and driving better outcomes for payment providers, their merchants, and consumers.

After breaking its revenue record in 2023 with an incredible 600% growth, BR-DGE’s impressive momentum is gathering pace throughout 2024, including its expansion into the Asia-Pacific region and new partnerships with Trustly, Kount, PayPal, and Discover Global Network amongst others. BR-DGE’s newly launched white-label payment orchestration solution empowers clients with the freedom to choose from a wide array of new services, combining the best components of their own offerings with BR-DGE’s modular payment connectivity, routing, tokenisation, and data reporting capabilities.