Just about all the major credit card companies have their own travel portals nowadays. From the perspective of credit card companies, the goal is to earn commissions on travel bookings, often by working in partnership with online travel agencies.
Personally, I only use credit card portals to book travel if I have a very specific incentive for doing so, whether it’s bonus points, using a credit that comes as a credit card benefit, or something else. Along those lines, in recent times we’ve seen the Citi ThankYou program become more lucrative, between new cards being launched, and new transfer partners being added.
So in this post, I’d like to talk briefly about Citi Travel, which is the travel portal associated with Citi ThankYou credit cards. Rather than doing a deep dive into every aspect of the portal, let me focus on where I strategically see value with booking through Citi Travel.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on One Mile at a Time.
