CONNECTED TRAVELLER

For work, organisation, security and entertainment on the move. Our selection of technological products and services for business travellers.

Luggage management has always been a source of stress. Start-ups are now offering luggage storage and transfer services to relieve travellers of this burden.

The RGPD has introduced the possibility of transferring personal data from one service provider to another. Applied to business travel, this right to portability should facilitate the circulation of information between all the players in the chain. The possible uses are infinite.

Facial recognition could replace traditional check-in at Sydney airport. The airport and Qantas are currently testing this technology on a sample of passengers.

On 2 July, Lufthansa announced the launch of a digital check-in application. Called Airline Checkins, it works with more than 200 airlines and has several other functions.

Business travellers passing through Schiphol airport can now convert their euros into Bitcoin. Officials at the Dutch hub have decided to experiment with crypto-currencies.

Start-ups want to dematerialise transport tickets to simplify users' lives. These start-ups met at the Transports Publics 2018 trade show, held from 12 to 14 June at Porte de Versailles.

On 14 June, Parnasse and Orange Cyberdefense unveiled two new offers for business travellers to secure their mobile phones and communications. Until now, these tools have been reserved for businesses.

SAP Concur surveyed some 4,000 employees in 6 European countries. The aim was to find out how they perceive artificial intelligence and its implications for business travel, particularly in terms of personalisation.

The world of hotels and restaurants came together on 4 and 5 June for the Food Hotel Tech exhibition. The event organisers brought together start-ups representing the latest trends in the industry.

Flying cars, connected objects, artificial intelligence: the innovations presented at the Viva Technology trade show are shaping the world of travel in the future.

As the European regulation on the processing of personal data (RGPD) comes into force on 25 May, Fabien Soulis, partner and head of Oppidum Security's technical division, describes the impact of this change on companies' information systems.

Specialist site 9to5 Google has spotted a new feature that allows Southwest Airlines boarding passes to be downloaded directly to the Google Pay app.

Tailor-made travel offers, securing the traveller's journey, luggage traceability, automated payments... Blockchain technology meets a large number of use cases. Aggregators, GDSs and other intermediaries could soon find themselves bypassed.

ARCEP has just given the go-ahead to Inmarsat to use stations on French soil as part of the European EAN programme, aimed at providing in-flight broadband internet. IAG is set to be the first airline group to offer such a service.

The latest update to Sam, FCM's chatbot for business travellers, includes a version for travel managers. The application also covers more countries and promises new features.

Huawei's latest top-of-the-range handset plays the photo card, but also the artificial intelligence card, the facial recognition card, the design card with its edge-to-edge screen... In short, it plays on all fronts to make sure it ticks all the boxes when it comes up against the Apple and Samsung benchmarks.

The DeepL website launched a professional version on 20 March. It offers new options and can now be integrated into other software or applications.

Europe is putting an end to digital borders for streaming platforms such as Netflix from 1 April. Molotov.tv has just removed these barriers ahead of the deadline.

Lufthansa has recently been testing a humanoid robot called Josie Pepper in Terminal 2 at Munich airport. A first for a German platform.