Here's what travel and hospitality will look like by 2025 as organizations strive to offer endlessly personal and exceedingly convenient services to travelers.
Travelport Digital Webinar - Mobile Travel Trends 2017Travelport
Discover the mobile travel trends that will shape the mobile landscape for the travel industry in 2017 and beyond. With insights from Travelport Digital experts and travel industry heavyweights.
Isobar predicts that 2018 will be the year of Augmented Humanity, a year where technology enhances and scales our most human attributes. In 2018, technological interfaces will become more natural and instinctive, technology will automate repetitive tasks to free up time for creativity and compassion, and artificial intelligence will meet emotional intelligence.
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From wearable to ubiquitous computing, Science fiction is now IT science
Neoris Practical InSights
Manuel Belaunzaran
Neoris Mexico CTO
This is the conjunction of internet-of-things, wearable computing, mobile apps, geo location, augmented reality, cloud computing and many other developments.
Here's what travel and hospitality will look like by 2025 as organizations strive to offer endlessly personal and exceedingly convenient services to travelers.
Travelport Digital Webinar - Mobile Travel Trends 2017Travelport
Discover the mobile travel trends that will shape the mobile landscape for the travel industry in 2017 and beyond. With insights from Travelport Digital experts and travel industry heavyweights.
Isobar predicts that 2018 will be the year of Augmented Humanity, a year where technology enhances and scales our most human attributes. In 2018, technological interfaces will become more natural and instinctive, technology will automate repetitive tasks to free up time for creativity and compassion, and artificial intelligence will meet emotional intelligence.
From wearable to ubiquitous computing - Science fiction is now IT scienceNEORIS
From wearable to ubiquitous computing, Science fiction is now IT science
Neoris Practical InSights
Manuel Belaunzaran
Neoris Mexico CTO
This is the conjunction of internet-of-things, wearable computing, mobile apps, geo location, augmented reality, cloud computing and many other developments.
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Flightslogic, being a leading Travelport GDS integration, associate Travelport GDS to deliver best in class travel software to global travel management companies. Flightslogic integrate Galileo gds web services to access the inventory for flights, hotels, transfers and cruise through web services given by Travelport. Client's credentials are used for the authentication and data processing
We’re in the early stages of a once-in-a-generation moment. Virtual, augmented, and mixed “realities” present viable channels through which brands engage with their customers.
While still in its infancy, there are many more reasons to be encouraged about a not-so-distant future where physical screens and interfaces are the exception rather than the rule. And, brands will lead the way, especially as technology behind these new realities gets better, enabling storytelling in the medium to get richer and richer.
In this forward-looking session, Dave Curry, VP Emerging Trends and Technology at POP, and Jonathan Faunce, Creative Director at HTC, will explore virtual, augmented and mixed realities, and in doing so, will uncover unexpected ways to leverage these new, modern technologies.
Audience Benefits:
A deep-dive on how to best capitalize on the valuable opportunities that virtual, augmented, and mixed realities provide.
Gain unique insight into how these technologies can enable brand storytelling in new and innovative ways.
Learn what it’s going to take to bring these technologies to the mainstream in meaningful ways.
How AI will transform mobile, apps, and marketing: 50 influencers speakTUNE
2017 is the year Artificial Intelligence will make huge inroads on business, marketing, and our tools. 50 influencers and experts like Joel Comm, Bryan Kramer, and Tamara McCleary share their predictions.
7 Mobile Marketing Opportunities for the Travel IndustryJim Nichols
It wasn’t that long ago that virtually all travel transactions went through brick and mortar agents. Now more than half of travel dollars are spent via digital. Further, 52% of those sales came via mobile. And according to the latest figures from eMarketer, 63% of digital travel ad spend is dedicated to mobile advertising, and that share is climbing rapidly.
In my role working for Apsalar, a mobile analytics and audiences company, I spend lots of time identifying best practices to help travel companies maximize results for their mobile marketing investments. There are many ways that travel companies can get more by doing more in mobile. Building a good transaction site and app are only the first steps in what must be an ongoing commitment to mobile innovation. Here are seven “musts” for travel marketing in 2017.
Virtual Reality for Brands by Patrick-Milling Smith / Here Be Dragons & Rori DuBoff. A strategic in depth guide for brands executing VR: key best practices for developing in VR, along with distribution engagement strategies, and media industry applications, as well as up-to-date stats.
Shaping the future consumer life cycle with android and contextual marketing ...Miel Van Opstal
Thoughts on how personalized and intelligent conversational services are influencing responsive customer journeys and how customer-centric data collection is taking the brand relationship to a next level, beyond the ordinary loyalty programs.
Augmented Reality AR is set to become an indispensable part of people’s livesLeeSam111
Recent research and the current scenario as well as future market potential of "Augmented Reality (AR): Market Shares, Strategies, And Forecasts, Worldwide, 2016 To 2022" globally.
The Disruptor Airline - How online content aggregators may take traditional a...Millennium Aviation, Inc.
The only way the traditional airlines will be structurally profitable is by offering a problem-solving service that is part of peoples’ daily lives, whether they travel or not. But it needs to be consistent when they do. There is no real ROIC in transportation.
Who can completely disrupt the airline industry? Who can change the face of the travel business in a revolutionary way? A marketing company that will trigger you to want to travel. One that will let you know which of your friends you can meet where. One that will network on your behalf and bring new business opportunities and arrange for meetings in places that meet your tastes and preference. One that will suggest and pencil in landmark sightseeing or adventures around your calendar with people you want, integrating social media and business networks. A concierge that will make your life easier and take care of your bags and makes sure your personal media library is loaded into the individual in-flight entertainment system in the seat you selected. One that is not a travel company, but a lifestyle partner that is part of your everyday life, whether you travel or not.
The web was first conceived 25 years ago, by an Englishman. Fifteen years later, as the first crop of dot.coms were going bust, close to 60% of its users (and all Alexa “top 20” sites) came from developed nations. Fast forward to today, and the picture is strikingly different.
Almost half the Alexa “top 20” now comes from emerging economies. Economies where close to 3 billion people have yet to use the web, but thanks to mobile — won’t have to wait much longer to discover it.
This presentation will introduce you to fascinating and innovative services that are re-shaping the web to serve the consumers of tomorrow. Driven by mobile, the power of personal relationships, and the breakneck pace of globalisation, these services provide a glimpse into the business models, opportunities and challenges we will face, when growing a truly global web.
Travelport Digital Mobile Travel Trends 2018 WebinarTravelport
We take a look at the 8 key trends travel brands need to embrace in 2018, exploring bots, mobile messaging, progressive web, blockchain, mobile analytics and more. We also share detailed research across end-travellers and travel industry professionals to help your digital strategy in 2018.
This presentation was given at The Trinity Forum in Taipei September 21, 2014. The Trinity Forum is a think tank for Airports, Brands and DutyFree/Travel Retailers hosted by ACI - Airports Council International and The Moodie Report. This presentation gives top line insight on how disruptive technology is changing the experience for travelers and how IBeacons, Smartphones like the Iphone6, wearable technology, mobile payments, applications and Social Media can now be harnessed in more powerful ways.
The Internet of Everything – global connectivity of digital devices and all things electronic – is set to offer consumers a mobile world of personalisation and convenience that transcends smartphones and handsets.
Actual QR codes seen around the U.S. and where they lead with some commentary on the quality of the destination. Part of a TechWithAliza.com teleseminar about sensible QR code marketing.
Retos de la comunicación digital: marketing, audiencias, contenidos y omni-canal.
Miguel Parra, Director de Desarrollo de Negocio.
Customer Experience en Oracle para España y Portugal.
Top 5 gds api for your travel business globallyLeenaSajo
Flightslogic, being a leading Travelport GDS integration, associate Travelport GDS to deliver best in class travel software to global travel management companies. Flightslogic integrate Galileo gds web services to access the inventory for flights, hotels, transfers and cruise through web services given by Travelport. Client's credentials are used for the authentication and data processing
We’re in the early stages of a once-in-a-generation moment. Virtual, augmented, and mixed “realities” present viable channels through which brands engage with their customers.
While still in its infancy, there are many more reasons to be encouraged about a not-so-distant future where physical screens and interfaces are the exception rather than the rule. And, brands will lead the way, especially as technology behind these new realities gets better, enabling storytelling in the medium to get richer and richer.
In this forward-looking session, Dave Curry, VP Emerging Trends and Technology at POP, and Jonathan Faunce, Creative Director at HTC, will explore virtual, augmented and mixed realities, and in doing so, will uncover unexpected ways to leverage these new, modern technologies.
Audience Benefits:
A deep-dive on how to best capitalize on the valuable opportunities that virtual, augmented, and mixed realities provide.
Gain unique insight into how these technologies can enable brand storytelling in new and innovative ways.
Learn what it’s going to take to bring these technologies to the mainstream in meaningful ways.
How AI will transform mobile, apps, and marketing: 50 influencers speakTUNE
2017 is the year Artificial Intelligence will make huge inroads on business, marketing, and our tools. 50 influencers and experts like Joel Comm, Bryan Kramer, and Tamara McCleary share their predictions.
7 Mobile Marketing Opportunities for the Travel IndustryJim Nichols
It wasn’t that long ago that virtually all travel transactions went through brick and mortar agents. Now more than half of travel dollars are spent via digital. Further, 52% of those sales came via mobile. And according to the latest figures from eMarketer, 63% of digital travel ad spend is dedicated to mobile advertising, and that share is climbing rapidly.
In my role working for Apsalar, a mobile analytics and audiences company, I spend lots of time identifying best practices to help travel companies maximize results for their mobile marketing investments. There are many ways that travel companies can get more by doing more in mobile. Building a good transaction site and app are only the first steps in what must be an ongoing commitment to mobile innovation. Here are seven “musts” for travel marketing in 2017.
Virtual Reality for Brands by Patrick-Milling Smith / Here Be Dragons & Rori DuBoff. A strategic in depth guide for brands executing VR: key best practices for developing in VR, along with distribution engagement strategies, and media industry applications, as well as up-to-date stats.
Shaping the future consumer life cycle with android and contextual marketing ...Miel Van Opstal
Thoughts on how personalized and intelligent conversational services are influencing responsive customer journeys and how customer-centric data collection is taking the brand relationship to a next level, beyond the ordinary loyalty programs.
Augmented Reality AR is set to become an indispensable part of people’s livesLeeSam111
Recent research and the current scenario as well as future market potential of "Augmented Reality (AR): Market Shares, Strategies, And Forecasts, Worldwide, 2016 To 2022" globally.
The Disruptor Airline - How online content aggregators may take traditional a...Millennium Aviation, Inc.
The only way the traditional airlines will be structurally profitable is by offering a problem-solving service that is part of peoples’ daily lives, whether they travel or not. But it needs to be consistent when they do. There is no real ROIC in transportation.
Who can completely disrupt the airline industry? Who can change the face of the travel business in a revolutionary way? A marketing company that will trigger you to want to travel. One that will let you know which of your friends you can meet where. One that will network on your behalf and bring new business opportunities and arrange for meetings in places that meet your tastes and preference. One that will suggest and pencil in landmark sightseeing or adventures around your calendar with people you want, integrating social media and business networks. A concierge that will make your life easier and take care of your bags and makes sure your personal media library is loaded into the individual in-flight entertainment system in the seat you selected. One that is not a travel company, but a lifestyle partner that is part of your everyday life, whether you travel or not.
The web was first conceived 25 years ago, by an Englishman. Fifteen years later, as the first crop of dot.coms were going bust, close to 60% of its users (and all Alexa “top 20” sites) came from developed nations. Fast forward to today, and the picture is strikingly different.
Almost half the Alexa “top 20” now comes from emerging economies. Economies where close to 3 billion people have yet to use the web, but thanks to mobile — won’t have to wait much longer to discover it.
This presentation will introduce you to fascinating and innovative services that are re-shaping the web to serve the consumers of tomorrow. Driven by mobile, the power of personal relationships, and the breakneck pace of globalisation, these services provide a glimpse into the business models, opportunities and challenges we will face, when growing a truly global web.
Travelport Digital Mobile Travel Trends 2018 WebinarTravelport
We take a look at the 8 key trends travel brands need to embrace in 2018, exploring bots, mobile messaging, progressive web, blockchain, mobile analytics and more. We also share detailed research across end-travellers and travel industry professionals to help your digital strategy in 2018.
This presentation was given at The Trinity Forum in Taipei September 21, 2014. The Trinity Forum is a think tank for Airports, Brands and DutyFree/Travel Retailers hosted by ACI - Airports Council International and The Moodie Report. This presentation gives top line insight on how disruptive technology is changing the experience for travelers and how IBeacons, Smartphones like the Iphone6, wearable technology, mobile payments, applications and Social Media can now be harnessed in more powerful ways.
The Internet of Everything – global connectivity of digital devices and all things electronic – is set to offer consumers a mobile world of personalisation and convenience that transcends smartphones and handsets.
Actual QR codes seen around the U.S. and where they lead with some commentary on the quality of the destination. Part of a TechWithAliza.com teleseminar about sensible QR code marketing.
Retos de la comunicación digital: marketing, audiencias, contenidos y omni-canal.
Miguel Parra, Director de Desarrollo de Negocio.
Customer Experience en Oracle para España y Portugal.
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This is a presentation delivered by Katie King at the UKInbound tourism conference, on "How can marketing professionals adapt to survive & thrive in a world of AI?"
https://www.ukinbound.org/events/tourism-marketing-in-a-digital-age-seminar/
Check out the 5 travel and leisure trends of 2025 and find out how hyperpersonalization and human centric technology can play a pivotal role in digital transformation.
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Check out the 5 travel and leisure trends of 2025 and find out how hyperpersonalization and human centric technology can play a pivotal role in digital transformation.
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Travel technology provider Travelport has invested significantly in a digital transformation journey over the last several years. They recognize that Blockchain can improve efficiencies in the travel distribution marketplace, making distribution more affordable to long-tail content providers like B&Bs, small local boutique hotels, Airbnb hosts, excursion providers, etc. By utilizing IBM Blockchain, Travelport’s new solution will significantly reduce costs for managing travel content so that long-tail content providers can reach their travelers more efficiently and on a larger scale. Learn how the platform will unlock the marketplace for long-tail travel content and help small businesses compete in the fast-growing global travel industry.
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Kinetic a WPP Agency and the global leader in contextually connecting and activating audiences on the move, led a CES tour for both clients on the ground and around the world, through a Spectacles-powered livestream on Snapchat. Here are the top trends for brands.
Presentation delivered in the University of Azores. The class about Travel Technology is an initiative by TTS in collaboration with its R&D company, TTS Lab.
More about the course you can find at http://protraveltech.tts.com/
Travel Planning 2020: The Journey Toward Market ProsperityCognizant
By harnessing Code Halo thinking, travel and hospitality companies can transform their business models by offering an automated and customized trip planning experience, ushering in a new era for the travel industry.
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In 2014, they are looking at 14 trends they think it will drive travel industry and consumers this year and beyond. Design, user experience, data, and ease of travel will define travel trends in 2014, and the14 trends reflect that.
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Augmented Reality, RFID and the Internet of ThingsDavid Carr
Workshop about breaking digital creativity away from screens and the opportunities that Augmented Reality, RFID, mobile and multitouch technologies present.
Rafael Siqueira, um dos fundadores do Apontador, fez uma rápida apresentação da sua palestra, cujo tema foi “Social Location: Transformando a localização em uma batalha de ego digital”.
Siqueira demonstro potenciais das ferramentas sociais de geolocalização.
In this paper we examine how the Leisure & Tourism Industry is approaching mobile technology and we provide our top 6 tips to consider when making the transition into the mobile environment.
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3. 1
the future of travel:
planning & booking
Introduction: A View of the Future 3
1. Digital Travel Buddies 12
2. Virtual Becomes Reality 22
3. Semantic Search 30
Conclusion 38
Appendix 1: A 2020s Travel Landscape 40
Appendix 2: Methodology 42
4. 3
Introduction:
Spring, 2024
It’s all bad news this morning on the 3D Apple
TV and the working day ahead threatens to be
long and taxing. With a wave of his hand, TOM
(Traveler of the Millennium) switches off the
gesture-controlled unit with a sigh. It’s clearly
time for a break.
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5. After a run of 60-hour weeks, even his MeTube alerts are telling
him he needs to get away from it all. Siri, his virtual housemate,
has spotted the signs of burnout too.
Without any instructions from him, she begins to compile journey
possibilities that she knows he’ll love. “Perhaps a trip to see Africa’s
disappearing elephant herds? Only 20 years before they’re gone
for good,” she adds.
“Maybe something a bit more relaxing,” he replies.
“One of the new underwater hotels,” she suggests, lowering the lights,
filling the room with the sound of lapping waves on coral
and projecting a hologram of a gorgeous seascape viewed through
the panoramic windows of a room beneath the crystal-clear waters
of Fiji.
Over the next 20 minutes, Siri directs a virtual stream onto his third-generation
Glyph TV, a curated cascade of inspiring images, words,
sounds and prices calculated to get his travel juices flowing.
Finally, a stunning image of one of the
new space hotels in low orbit over the
heart-stoppingly beautiful blue-green
curvature of the Earth makes him sit up
and take notice. “Now we’re talking,”
he murmurs. “Book me a seat, Siri.”
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6. “Within five years, gadgets such as Google Glass will be
using these areas of technology and we’ll see a significant
change in how we handle foreign languages, or choose
what restaurant to eat at, based on the wisdom of crowds
that we can instantly access.”
“TOM is fictitious, but the technologies mentioned in the above scenario are either real, being tested
or undergoing prototype development,” says The Future Laboratory’s Co-founder Martin Raymond,
who collaborated on this report with Skyscanner.
Our research and expert interviews suggest that in 10 years’ time the era of time-consuming online
travel discovery, research and booking across multiple platforms and devices will be long gone.
As Skyscanner’s Head of B2B Filip Filipov says, “In the near future, there is going to be a mass-market
conversion to semantic, location-aware and Big Data [data sets that are beyond our reasonable abilities
to manage or comprehend so that more imaginative methods and ways to visualize them are required]
applications, which will be of transformative use to travelers.
It’s tempting to raise a skeptical eyebrow at forecasts about the impact of new and emerging
technology on the travel industry of the 2020s. Predicting which interfaces and devices will succeed –
and which will disappear without trace – is tricky.
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7. “Ten years ago, who would have predicted that it would be the norm today to communicate directly
with all friends on vacation by Skype or mobile phone rather than sending a postcard, or make travel
choices from a website on a computer screen rather than from a travel agent’s brochure?” asks Filipov.
The explosion of the internet and its associated digital technologies since the turn of the century
has disrupted almost every field of human endeavor, and transformed the way that we plan,
book and experience travel.
Nevertheless, Filipov believes this technological revolution is in its infancy. “We are at the start
of a journey that will see personalization of content and advances in areas such as Artificial Intelligence
that will totally change once again the way we book and take our vacations,” he says.
“Travel services such as Skyscanner will be able to deploy online semantic and intuitive tools that will
know your preferences: that you are a regular business traveler that you only ever take carry-on that
you always fly first class and like to stay in a four-star hotel no more than a mile from your meeting.
“Summer vacation booking will be similarly seamless, knowing that you prefer sunny destinations
with limited flying time, that you take at least two suitcases, and like a hotel with a gym close to a beach.
“By the middle of the next decade, travel websites will
be able to deliver personalized inspiration to the digital
technology in your home almost without being asked.
“Essentially, think of a world of travel where the traveler comes first – and the technology comes together
to make that experience intuitive, rich and inspirational.”
This is the world that the Skyscanner’s Future of Travel
report explores as it reveals and explains the range
of technology being developed today that will evolve
to shape the global travel industry of tomorrow.
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8. A decade from today, all travelers will have at their disposal
a startling array of next-generation digital technologies that
will transform the discovery, planning and booking of their
next journey into a seamless and intuitive experience.
As Skyscanner’s CEO and Co-Founder Gareth Williams puts it, “Travel search and booking will be
as easy as buying a book on Amazon.”
In this first section of Skyscanner’s three-part Future of Travel report, we discover and dissect
the advances in wearable, intelligent technology, virtual reality and haptic websites – which take
advantage of a user’s touch to provide tactile feedback – and semantic search engines that our experts
and researchers predict will revolutionize the travel landscape of 2024.
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9. 1.Digital
Travel
Buddies
Long gone are the days when TOM (Traveler
of the Millennium) would have had to spend
hours online, tapping away on a computer
keyboard to compare flight, hotel and rental
car prices and various permutations on dozens
of different websites.
In the 2000s a range of comparison sites
emerged to ease the stress of travel planning
and booking, but by 2024, our traveler will
have a new friend to take the strain out of travel
discovery, search and booking: his Digital
Travel Buddy.
Global Futurist Daniel Burrus, author of
Technotrends: How to Use Technology
to Go Beyond Your Competition, best explains
the nature of the high-tech companion that
our traveler will have at his command.
“In the 2020s, each of us
will have an individual
‘e-agent’ that goes
everywhere with us,
inside a watch or a small
piece of jewelry,” he says.
It will essentially be an Artificial Intelligence
device, constantly connected to the web,
which has learned to intimately understand
our individual preferences.
“It could have the face, voice and personality
of our favorite actor or comedian and appear
to us as a 3D hologram image, or inside a virtual
environment, at our verbal command.
“It will personalize all of our travel experiences,
planning itineraries based on our particular likes
and dislikes, and act as a tour guide, telling us
only about the elements of the destination that
it knows we will be interested in.
“Travel brands will even be able to rent out
a personalized e-agent to their consumers
as part of the vacation package. Customers will
be able to continually engage and interact
with their travel company to fine-tune their trips
in real time and troubleshoot any problems
that arise.”
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10. TOM’s Digital Travel Buddy will have had
his origins in today’s emerging technologies.
Desti, a conversational travel app from SRI
International, the research institute that
developed Apple’s Siri system, is one of this
new breed. It is pointing the way towards
a world in which our mobile devices will learn
from their interactions with us.
The app can find relevant online travel reviews and comments based on its user’s past preferences
and searches. A traveler with a young family, for example, might be presented with a selection of reviews
of family-friendly hotels in his destination of choice.
Other technology brands are developing interactive devices that feel more like friends than machines.
South Korea-based Samsung’s SAMI interactive AI system will automatically monitor the lifestyle
and health needs of its user by plugging into the aggregated knowledge of the 1.5 trillion sensor-enabled
smartphones, wearable and other smart devices that will exist by 2020, according to project director
Luc Julia.
Mobile devices that can speak to us and understand our verbal replies, and even our facial expressions,
are also under development. Microsoft has Cortana, a voice-activated personal assistant that will act
as a human-sounding interface to all of the brand’s email and search functions.
“It will be deeply personalized, based on the advanced, almost magical intelligence in our cloud
that learns more and more over time about people and the world,” says Steve Ballmer, former CEO
and now Director of Microsoft.
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11. More importantly, by scanning our searches online, and cross-referencing our vacation, food, travel
and hotel searches it will use predictive algorithms to make original suggestions tailored to our price
range, peer and gender needs, and whether we usually prefer a fly-and-flop trip or a white-knuckle
adventure vacation.
The Future Laboratory Co-founder Martin Raymond says, “We’re used to Amazon and Google suggesting
products to us. Soon this kind of predictive software will be putting together detailed and tailored travel
experiences, like our own top-end digital travel broker.
“Drawing on the huge amounts of personal data we post about ourselves
on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Mixi, Sina Weibo, Cyworld,
Kaixin001, Orkut, Vine and Instagram, it will deliver intimate, personal
and surprising itineraries, with everything from exotic food trips to guides
to neighborhoods where you are most likely to meet like-minded people
who share your tastes in food, drink and socializing.”
The move towards the advent
of the Digital Travel Buddy
can be seen all around us.
Russian innovation brand
i-Free has designed an Artificial
Intelligence system that
processes a listener’s question
and supplies an appropriate
verbal answer in a split second
to enable its bio-robot Frank
to hold meaningful,
sequential conversations.
Intel’s RealSense 3D camera is an example of the type
of technology that travel devices in the 2020s will use
to recognize and react to human emotions. The camera
is being designed to gauge the mood of its users by their
facial expression and body posture, and to understand
and respond to colloquial verbal commands.
Facebook’s own Artificial Intelligence Unit, launched in October 2013, is working to create
an intelligent voice recognition system too. “The goal is to use new approaches to AI to help make sense
of all the content that people share so we can generate new insights about the world to answer people’s
questions,” says CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
“In time, I think it will be possible to build services that are much more natural to interact with
and that can help solve many more problems than any existing technologies today,” he says.
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12. As the software systems for a talking,
learning online entity converge to create
the “mind” of our traveler’s Digital Travel
Buddy in the early 2020s, so a range
of interconnected miniaturized hardware
will serve as its wearable “body.”
The first generation of such devices
is gaining market traction today.
Annual sales of wearable technology such
as wristwatches with smartphone functions,
including the Sony Smartwatch and
the Samsung Galaxy Gear, will hit 485
million by 2018, according to market
research company ABI Research.
Google will ship 6.6 million units a year
of Google Glass, the camera-enabled smart
glasses, by 2016, moving the technology into
the mass market, according to IMS Research.
But in the 2020s,
wearable devices will
be far smaller and faster,
and with many more
capabilities, providing
the technology to make
the Digital Travel Buddy
a practical reality.
By 2017, we will be using on-body devices
powered by microchips just seven
nanometers in length – the width of 15–20
atoms – that will “transform every area
of our lives,” according to Renée James,
President of Intel.
“The miniaturization of technology,” says
The Future Laboratory’s Martin Raymond,
“will open a whole new world of possibilities
as we combine wearable technology with
near invisible technology. Already, parents
are using trackers for their children when
they are traveling with them – phone devices
that tell you where they are geographically,
and increasingly, tags that can be embedded
in clothing, even inserted under the skin.
Add to that the possibility of retinal cameras
– cameras so small you can mount them
on a pair of glasses that won’t look anything
like Google Glass looks now. You won’t just
be able to track your child, you’ll be able
to see their vacation, or where they are,
from their point of view.”
Being able to see a destination from
someone else’s point of view is proving
popular in Melbourne, with their remote
control tourist. Here, tourists and special
tour guides wear camera-mounted helmets,
while their armchair equivalents sit at home
and suggest places they should walk
or cycle to. “While it’s not quite the same
thing,” says Raymond, “it gives you an idea
of how wearable and mounted technologies
will be used in the future.”
A next-generation smart watch, reportedly
being developed by Apple, could contain
3D holographic displays and web access,
placing streetscapes, a terrain schematic,
3D walk-through versions of a neighborhood,
or the fastest route through an airport
at our fingertips.
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13. And the trend for mobile device miniaturization will gain
momentum as current advances such as microscopic
bendable circuits developed by the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology – 1/60th the thickness of a human hair
and implantable on a contact lens – will hit the mass market
by the end of this decade. All will make it easier to access
and indeed to carry so-called wearable or bodyTECH,
which some of our experts are now referring to as buddyTech.
Alistair Hann, Skyscanner’s Chief Technology Officer, predicts that the advent of the Digital Travel
Buddy will change not just the way that travelers plan and book, but their experience of the journey
itself too.
“Imagine wearing a device that is able to provide a simultaneous verbal translation of what your taxi
driver is saying to you in Chinese,” he says.
“Or a device that is able to translate your restaurant menu from Russian into English in seconds?
The possibilities of these technologies are endless. Suddenly, travel will hold no fears.”
Grand predictions are often made about the emergence of game-changing new technologies,
only for the date of their launch to move further into the future.
However, Dr. Ian Yeoman, Travel Futurologist and Associate Professor of Tourism Futures
at Victoria University of Wellington, is confident that advanced wearable devices will become
part of the mainstream by the end of the decade.
“Developments such as Google Glass will be mainstream within 18 months. Within five years,
everything that Google Glass can do now will be available on a contact lens,” he says.
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14. 2.Virtual
Becomes
a Reality His wearable AI connects online with a new
A simple verbal command sets TOM off on a journey of travel
discovery from the comfort of his own bed. “I really need a
vacation,” he murmurs, sending his Digital Travel Buddy into
action on his behalf.
generation of “try before you buy” websites
operated by travel brands. It returns with
a palette of virtual reality samples that allow
our traveler to see the sights, hear the sounds,
and even feel the landscape, of a variety
of different travel experiences.
His sense of anticipation and excitement will
be piqued by a 3D, multi-sensory stroll along
a sun-drenched Costa Rican shore, a trek
along a snow-covered path high in the Andes
or a dive on the Barrier Reef.
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15. “Virtual reality won’t replace real travel, as is often portrayed in sci-fi movies,” says Technology
Futurist Daniel Burrus. Resembling a set of ski goggles, the headset combines
smartphone technology and motion sensors to produce
an experience similar to watching a never-ending IMAX
screen. In essence, images are projected onto the retina
in much the same way as old-style projectors throw
images onto a screen.
Another virtual reality headset, designed by a team at Vienna University of Technology, allows a user
seemingly to walk through an endless labyrinth while really walking around in circles in a small room.
The researchers are now adding motion and proximity-sensing technology that will enable more
than one person to experience the same labyrinth at the same time without bumping into each other,
according to New Scientist magazine.
“It will become a new form of show rooming, an incredible
3D taste of a destination that will make travelers long to
experience the real thing.”
In 2014, the technology to make this future vision a reality is already beginning to emerge. A CGI tool
developed by technology brand 3RD Planet enables users to take an amazingly realistic walk through
the streets of a city.
A research team from the University of North Carolina have engineered a virtual reality recreation
of a crowd scene outside St Paul’s Cathedral in London in 1622 that allows visitors to change
viewpoints at will.
The new Oculus Rift VR headset from US start-up Oculus VR is the predecessor of the virtual reality
devices that our traveler will deploy in his home as he samples a range of vacation scenarios in 3D.
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16. Other advances will add a further layer of sensation
to the virtual reality experience: the sense of touch
through haptic technologies.
Disney has created a new interface called REVEL that gives tactile feedback through
minute vibrations from virtual 3D objects. The system will enable users to feel the craters
on the Moon, the spines of a cactus or the outlines of a delicate object. Japan’s NHK
public broadcast network is now prototyping a similar system that enables viewers
to “feel” the surfaces and textures of objects viewed on screen, including sand,
sea and foliage. Meanwhile, at Japan’s Tachi Lab, researcher Masashi Nakatani
is working on the haptic TECHTILE toolkit, a device that will enable you to convert
sounds into textures and surfaces that you can feel.
“Imagine being able to feel the heat of the sun on your hand,” says The Future
Laboratory’s Martin Raymond. “With software like the TECHTILE, which converts
sound waves to tactile feelings, you will be able to feel the sound of a gamelan in Bali,
or touch fluttering prayer flags in Tibet or Bhutan.”
By 2020, similar vibration-based haptic techniques will enable shoppers to feel
the texture of the wool, silk or cotton of the item they are about to buy on their tablet,
according to Robyn Schwartz, Associate Director of IBM Research Retail Analytics.
By the next decade, travelers will be able to use similar technology to feel the sand
between their toes on a beach thousands of miles away.
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17. “In 10 years’ time, a traveler will be able
to take a virtual reality walk through
the hotel he is planning to book in real
time,” says Nik Gupta, Director of Hotels
at Skyscanner.
‘He will be able to watch staff preparing
his room as it happens, see the staff
in action and watch chefs cooking
his favorite food. That will be ground-breaking
– an incredibly powerful tool
for building engagement and trust
between the traveler and the brand.”
TOM’s relaxed and exciting virtual reality
tour through a series of very different
travel scenarios allows him to fine-tune
his desires. He now knows whether he
would prefer a city break to a mountain
walking adventure or a trip to an exotic
beach idyll.
Reacting instantly to his decision,
his Digital Travel Buddy sets off on the
next stage of discovery: actively seeking,
and finally planning and booking, his trip
of choice.
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18. 3.Semantic
Search
TOM’s next stage of engagement
is with the powerfully intuitive
and semantic search tools that will
be deployed online by the leading
travel brands of the next decade.
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19. Connected to him via his Digital Travel Buddy, which communicates hyper-personalized preferences
from his favorite breakfast food to his gym regime and the stitch count of the cotton sheets on his bed,
he uses gestures and voice commands to interact as the tools engage Big Data analytics to compile
a selection of ideal vacation packages.
It is a one-stop-shop experience with every aspect of his journey researched, considered and booked.
As Stefan Rust, CEO of Exicon, says, “In the near future it is likely that all-encompassing mobile apps
will provide a thorough, end-to-end service – aggregates of airlines, airports, hotels and ground transport
systems will provide the tools for every part of the experience.
“Before your flight, the technology will enable you to research and book your flight and arrange
your local travel. At the airport it will guide you through the terminal, tell you where to check in,
track your luggage, exchange your currency and let you plan your arrival, book a room and rent a car,
as well as providing you with all the information you will need when you get to your destination.”
Technology and online brands are swiftly developing intuitive new approaches to searching
in cyberspace. Users will come to expect their preferences and previous search filters to be saved,
even allowing brands to access their social media networks, search history, even email strands more
proactively so that they can develop intimate, comprehensive cartograms of their needs,
likes and possible future behavior.
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20. Margaret Rice-Jones, Chairman of Skyscanner, believes this technology
will enable travel brands to more effectively use a person’s social media
presence, or even advice from their peer-to-peer networks,
to more accurately and imaginatively suggest future travel options.
“In the near future, we will see more integration across travel sites
and social media sites,” she says.
By 2024 this intuitive approach will be developed
further, with software able to read facial expressions
or build a digital DNA of user preferences.
Tech firm Affectiva is creating a facial coding algorithm that will enable
search engine software to read human expressions and thereby judge
whether the results it is providing are pleasing or frustrating the user.
New personal discovery engine Nara uses neuroscience concepts
to mimic and understand the thought patterns of the human brain,
allowing it to build a “digital DNA” of a user’s likes and dislikes.
Facebook’s Graph Search answers questions in colloquial – and even
grammatically incorrect English – and makes intuitive suggestions
drawing on peer-to-peer social media data.
Increasingly, these tools will automatically trawl the huge amount
of personal customer data at their disposal to instantly ensure that
travel search results conform to an individual user’s demands and desires.
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21. “Big Data can be a powerful force in transforming the travel industry,” according to the Amadeus IT
Group. “It could be one of the most influential initiatives since the online reservation system.”
Not everyone agrees. Technology insiders, such as Betsy Bilhorn, Vice-President of Product Management
at Scribe Software, dismiss it as over-hyped and likely to cause confusion through information overload
rather than provide a holistic view of customers’ needs.
However The Future Laboratory’s Martin Raymond highlights that “As well as technology influencing
technology, how we develop technology is hugely influenced by the consumer.”
“In our research with Generation I (Generation Interactive) pre-teens, and their older brothers and sisters
that we dubbed Generation D (Digital), we discovered that few of them fear the arrival of Big Friendly
Data, as we call it, while more of them welcome it, provided it brings them closer to what they want –
seamless communications with the world around them.”
By 2024, TOM will take it for granted that a whole
series of online software search entities will talk
to him and gauge his reactions and emotions
as they seek to anticipate his travel needs.
As Travel Futurologist Dr. Ian Yeoman says, “Our young children will think that it is completely natural
to talk to a machine that understands them without tapping a keyboard or touching a screen.
“Speech recognition involving smart agents that can use natural language and learn from experience
is already becoming more mainstream.”
Within minutes, TOM’s wearable AI will present him with a selection of door-to-door tailored travel
packages to browse through.
Once he has made his choice, his Digital Travel Buddy will make all of the bookings – and manage
payment transactions – by liaising with a travel brand’s intelligent software system.
That will be travel discovery in 2024. A trip sampled, researched and booked intuitively and seamlessly
in less than an hour – without ever leaving the house.
It is a world that will seem perfectly normal to our traveler. Martin Raymond concludes, “Current travelers
and users are wary of online systems having this level of in-depth understanding of their thoughts
and feelings.
“But teenagers and the under-10s are puzzled about why people are so worried. They expect technology
to work intuitively, to offer them solutions as they need them without ever being directly asked to do so.”
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22. Conclusion
TOM’s booking and planning experience will be incredibly
seamless, collaborative, bespoke and immersive.
A Digital Travel Buddy, a wearable Artificial Intelligence device
incorporating the latest voice- and gesture-control technology,
will intuitively sift through the online information overload to provide
him with the tailored trip of his dreams.
Travel discovery will be enhanced by brand websites that deploy
next-generation virtual reality and haptic tools to enable our traveler
to see, hear and feel a series of possible destinations from the comfort
of his own home.
Booking will be a quick, easy, stress-free and one-stop experience
conducted through semantic websites that are capable of learning
the likes and dislikes of a customer from his previous online actions,
and of conversing with them verbally in everyday language.
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23. The financial ebullience of the blossoming markets will be a necessary global antidote to the continuing
economic turbulence that will shape the attitude of travelers in the pruned markets – the economies in
Europe and the US whose growth has been cut back in the past 5 years by post-crash debt and austerity.
As IPK International’s Global Travel Trends report 2012/2013 says, “An increasing number of these
countries are not able to pay their debts, the debt crisis has not reached its end and the resulting
negative impacts on travel behavior – so-called ‘downward mobility’ – in Western Europe, the United
States and Japan cannot be excluded.”
The final factor that will help to define the global travel industry of the 2020s is a social one.
A demographic time bomb is waiting in the wings as the world’s population ages at an unprecedented
rate.
The past century has witnessed the most rapid decline in mortality rates in human history with life
expectancy for the world as a whole rising from 47 years in 1950–55 to 69 years in 2005–2010, according
to the UN.
In 1950, there were twice as many children under 15 as adults over 60. By 2050, the 60+ group will
outnumber children by two to one.
So, in 2024, our traveler will make his journey in a world in which blossoming market demand for new
experiences is counter-balanced by the financial caution of the still-recovering pruned markets of Europe
and the United States.
And he will take it as a given that every aspect of travel, from discovery and booking to transit and flying,
will incorporate the latest digital technology in the way that he does – seamlessly and unselfconsciously.
Appendix 1:
A 2020s Travel Landscape
To understand our 2020s traveler’s journey, we need to consider the technological, economic and
social forces that will reshape the global travel industry over the next 10 years.
Perhaps the most far-reaching factor at work is the growth towards digital maturity. In 2014, cyberspace
and its associated technologies are no longer as novel and surprising. They are becoming the backdrop
to all of our lives.
In China, 464 million people, or 34.5 percent of the total population, now access the internet through
smartphones or wireless mobile devices, according to the China Internet Network Information Center.
Asia will see the biggest growth in the middle class – predicted to triple to 1.7 billion by 2020, according
to Brookings Institution – whose spending power will drive new global behavior and attitudes to digital
technology.
By 2024, internet connectivity – and the mobile devices that enable it – will be as unremarkable as
electric lighting and central heating are today. The technology will be seamlessly enmeshed in the day-to-
day world of travelers in both the developed and developing economies. According to Cisco Systems,
there will be 50 billion devices connected to the internet by 2020.
Simultaneously, there will be an explosion of travel from the blossoming markets of Asia, South America
and Africa – the new emerging economies of each region – as their consumer spending power increases
enormously.
By 2030, Asia, the world’s largest and fastest-growing regional economy, will double its GDP to $67
trillion, outstripping GDP projections for Europe and the Americas combined, according to the Boston
Consulting Group.
Traveling millions from the blossoming markets are ushering in an era of global mobility, with the global
travel industry – and therefore demand for travel opportunities and experiences – expanding rapidly in
the next decade.
The World Travel & Tourism Council forecast 3.2 percent growth in global travel in 2013, easily
outstripping the predicted 2.4 percent growth in global GDP. The gap was even more pronounced in the
emerging economies in 2012, where China and South Africa posted 7 percent annual travel growth and
Indonesia reported a 6 percent rise.
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24. Appendix 2:
Research methodology
This Skyscanner report is the work of a team of 56 editors, researchers and futures networkers,
across key international cities. This team built a detailed picture of the next 10 years, looking at how
breakthrough technologies and exciting new destinations will shape the global travel industry in the
2020s.
The experts
We explored the travel technologies and behaviors to come, by plugging into the know-how of a range
of world-renowned experts, including Futurist Daniel Burrus, author of Technotrends: How to Use
Technology to Go Beyond Your Competition, and Travel Futurologist Dr. Ian Yeoman.
We also drew on the background lessons provided by digital strategist Daljit Singh; Microsoft’s UK Chief
Envisioning Officer Dave Coplin; Google Creative Lab Executive Creative Director Steve Vranakis; Kevin
Warwick, Professor of Cybernetics at Reading University; and Martin Raymond, Co-founder of The Future
Laboratory and author of CreATE, The Tomorrow People, and The Trend Forecaster’s Handbook.
From Skyscanner, the following experts were called on for their insights, expertise, and where possible,
quoted directly in the report: Margaret Rice-Jones, Chairman; Gareth Williams, CEO and Co-Founder;
Alistair Hann, CTO; Filip Filipov, Head of B2B; Nik Gupta, Director of Hotels; and Dug Campbell, Product
Marketing Manager.
In tandem with the above, we used The Future Laboratory’s online network, LS:N Global, to supplement
research, as well as findings from The Future Laboratory’s annual series of Futures reports on travel,
technology, food and hospitality.
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