The Advantage Travel Partnership is providing its members with free access to a platform designed to protect them from fraud.
The initiative comes two months after the consortium announced it had partnered with anti-fraud group Profit, and aims to help protect against various types of fraud by sharing details of fraudulent activity, including card payment fraud which Advantage said continues to be a challenge for its members.
With free access to the Intel platform, Advantage members can check credit card details, names, addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, postcodes and IP addresses to ensure they are not being scammed.
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Advantage chief operating officer Paul Nunn said: “As we know, fraud is not only expensive but also a time-consuming crime and can have serious consequences for any business.
“By sharing details of any fraudulent activity on the system, members will be helping to protect not only their business but also other travel businesses across the UK.
“The system is simple to use and Profit will provide support and training where required.”
Barry Gooch, chairman of Profit, said: “We have an excellent and longstanding working relationship with Advantage and are delighted that they have signed a membership-wide agreement which will provide all Advantage members with access to our fraud prevention tool, Intel.
“We are Profit will continue to enhance and expand our fraud prevention tools with the aim of ensuring travel businesses have the best possible chance of mitigating the threat of fraud.”