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Travel Industry Revitalized by Seamless, Secure Payment Options

CIO

With a travel resurgence already well under way, it’s essential for industry organizations to ensure they are offering consumers payment options that are not just convenient, but that also reduce risk and instill confidence with every transaction. Travel is back, and the industry needs to make sure they’re keeping pace.

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Predictive Tourism: The Merger Of Big Data In Travel Industry

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And in this case, the travel and tourism industry is no exception here. Travel industry may not be the first to inculcate emerging technology for its benefit, but it sure is benefiting from it now. Moreover, travel and tourism have become a worldwide trend. Competition Scouting. Intelligent Travel Assistants.

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What fuels Soltour’s strategy of digitalization and innovation

CIO

The bigplayers,such as OTAs [Online Travel Agencies], are advancing in their adoption of new technologies, taking advantage of AI andbig datatools,while other actors are in earlier stages of integration, he says. This reflects the growing dependence on digital solutions to maintain competitiveness, he says.

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From CIO to CX SVP, Cisco’s Jacqueline Guichelaar takes a road less travelled

CIO

Focus on the areas that matter the most, the areas where you have competitive advantage and / or the areas where maybe there is no solution in the market where you believe that if you build something you will help your company move forward”. She’s seen many inhouse built applications that have delivered enormous value to the company.

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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

CIO

A new business unit, which also has hubs in Brussels, Frankfurt, Gdansk, Vienna, and Zurich, Digital Hangar was founded in September 2022 with the aim to create the world’s best-connected travel experience, incorporating both in-person and digital services. It really became apparent there was something lacking in our landscape,” he says.

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CIOs contend with gen AI growing pains

CIO

Progress — and challenges Accenture’s work with Saudia Airlines involves a “travel companion” model that is far more than an online travel agency, reservation agent, or travel guide, Guan said. Proprietary data is your biggest competitive advantage.”

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Managing the ‘H’ out of AI

CIO

Like outrunning the proverbial lion, you will need to be better than the next guy at AI to be competitive in this day and age. To wit: A consultant operating in the travel and hospitality vertical declaims that “AI is the most technologically important shift since fire and the wheel.” Full stop – end of conversation.