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What are the key points of the Air Transport IT Insights 2021 report published by SITA? Sergio Colella - This report shows that Covid is playing a role in accelerating digitalisation. We see this in our everyday lives, and inevitably in the air transport sector. For almost ten years now, we have been interviewing...

In the coming months, will new technological trends emerge from the R&D capabilities of the major players, or from more agile start-ups? Evantia Giumba - There is a trend towards consolidation in the travel sector. The big players have the resources to invest heavily in technology. But that doesn't mean that...

When will biometrics become the norm in air travel? Could this mean the digitisation of passports? Barbara Dalibard - The number of biometric devices in airports has almost doubled in the space of a year. Today, this technology is present in 44 % of platforms. The technology is now mature. The question now concerns...

What if a face could be both boarding pass and passport? That's the promise of facial recognition applied to air travel. This biometric device simply consists of matching the photo of an identity document with the face of the passenger captured as they pass through. Average operation time: six seconds....

The British travel manager is definitely perplexed. A few days ago, a study published by the Business Travel Show revealed that travel buyers seem to be increasingly wary of NDC, even though the new distribution standard is becoming widespread in the airline sector. The show...

Applying the benefits of blockchain to hotel distribution. This is the intention of BTU Protocol, which, after launching Smart Car Reservations in Paris, is extending its scope to the hotel sector. At the CES 2019 trade show in Las Vegas, the French start-up announced the launch of "BTU Hotel", a service for...

Article 20 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force on 25 May this year, is not the best known. However, alongside the classic rights of access, rectification and forgetting, this article gives European citizens the right to portability. In other words, they have the right to recover their personal data from a third party,...