Merchant accounts for tour operators

If you are considering applying for a merchant account for your tourism related business, you will want to ensure that you are not a travel agency, sell airline tickets or GDS hotel accommodations. Most merchant processing companies including our partners Credit Card Transactions Inc. and Beanstream cannot issue merchant accounts for companies that fall into these high risk restricted business types. For more information about restricted business, please take a look at:

http://www.beanstream.com/website/support/restricted.asp

You may want to consider getting a PayPal business account. The discount rates for Paypal are between 1.9% to 2.9% with a $.30 USD transaction fee. For lower volume merchants, Paypal may be a reasonable solution. For more information, click here to sign-up now.