CONNECTED TRAVELLER

New home screen, simplified navigation, personalised travel content: Marriott has completely redesigned its Marriott Mobile application.

Digital borders are gradually coming down within the European Union. After roaming charges, which inflated telephone bills, it is now the turn of online content to be able to travel freely from one member country to another. And business travellers will be able to follow in their hotel rooms.

From biometrics at Amsterdam Schiphol to an intelligent system for filling buses to planes in Dubai, airports are looking for solutions to speed up passenger boarding.

Brussels Airlines is launching its mobile application as a prelude to a year of digital innovation in 2017. Massive investments are promised for the coming months.

A new application called Trip.com is making its appearance in France, in a particularly dynamic bleisure market. Its aim is to provide holidaymakers and business travellers alike with increasingly personalised suggestions for places to discover.

Qwidam is taking on the business travel market. The social network for emergency situations is now available in a corporate version, QPro, which offers a collaborative response to the duty of care issue.

New technological tools are helping business travellers to be more efficient and responsive. Slowly but surely, the world of business travel is catching up with consumer tools in terms of ergonomics and responsiveness.

Founder of TravelThink and a TravelTech specialist, Aurélie Krau is also a partner at Festive Road. She is a regular speaker at events analysing the development of business travel from a connected angle, and here she analyses a sector undergoing major change for Voyages d'Affaires. Interview by Florian Guillemin

Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines are allowing business travellers to surf the Internet on their European routes. Another Lufthansa initiative is the sale of prepaid SIM cards to avoid roaming charges anywhere in the world.

Intelligent scales, connected electrocardiograms, watches that calculate physical activity: the era of connected health is now touching the private lives of business travellers, their bodies and their health.

On the programme of this new connected selection: a high-tech pen, a luxurious connected watch and the latest generation of laptops. Enough to satisfy the most demanding business travellers.

Spies and CIA agents aren't the only ones being subjected to lie detectors. Travellers could soon be subjected to the same interrogation methods.

The connected revolution is underway: on 15 December the SNCF is launching its new TGV Connect service, a free Internet connection on board its high-speed trains, long-awaited by business travellers.

On the programme for this new connected selection: a waterproof memory, a secure telephone and a guardian angel key ring. Enough to reassure the most demanding business travellers.

The Lufthansa group is introducing a chatbot to help travellers find the best fare. It is now possible to chat via Messenger with Mildred - in English and German - to find out about the group's different options on a given route.

A new development in the Snowden affair directly concerns French business travellers. Air France is said to have been the target of an in-flight communications interception programme set up by the NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ.

Finding a technological solution to improve the customer experience in the event of flight disruptions: this is the spirit in which Air France launched its Priorité Client hackathon on 26 November, which was held for 48 hours at the Zalthabar in Levallois Perret.

Facebook has recently been experimenting with a new feature that tells users which wi-fi networks are available nearby.

The latest update to Google Translate moves from a word-by-word translation to a sentence-by-sentence approach, enhanced by machine learning. Google is promising the biggest breakthrough for the tool in 10 years...

G7 taxis are launching a new "Connect" service, enabling passengers to pay for their journey directly from their smartphone once they are in their taxi.