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Travel Fraud Trends 2025 – a global report
$11 million is lost to fraud every year for the average Travel, Ticketing or Hospitality company. Get the latests fraud statistics for the industry and its sub-sectors.
26 August 2025
Over $8.6 trillion. This is the projected value of the global online travel market by 2032*. Growing at a steady rate, it's already surpassed $1.7 trillion last year**.
For the Travel, Hospitality and Ticketing sector, online business is booming. Which comes with increased attention from bad actors.
Ravelin conducted a survey of merchants in 10 countries, centered around their fraud and payments landscape in recent months as well as their predictions. Today, we're sharing the results for the Travel sector, as well as its subsectors, including Accommodation and Ticketing.
*Source: The Brainy Insights
**Source: Phocuswright
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Nikoleta Dimitriou Senior Content Manager
With a marketing career focused on technology, Nikoleta has worked for the data science, e-learning, and fraud industries, among others. Since 2023…
