Wi-Fi in Hospitality

whitePaper | January 5, 2020

The US travel space is rapidly changing. Driving this disruption are three major trends that go hand-in-hand: personalization, early stage consumer acquisitions, and mobile. Personalization is the biggest trend in travel. As of 2017, 57% of US travelers felt that brands should tailor their information based on the personal preferences or past behaviors of consumers. Google and other industry tech giants, like Facebook and Amazon, have been leading this charge through earlier, customized consumer acquisitions. The use of mobile has been paramount in the personalization of travel sales. Mobile also serves as a key platform in early customized consumer acquisitions, experiencing a 50% uptick in travel-related questions stemming from smartphones.

whitePaper | February 16, 2020

In the competitive hospitality industry customers are demanding a better, more personalized experience. Despite increased consumer spending, operational expenses are putting brands under pressure leading them to search for new efficiency. Mergers, new partnerships, personalization, and digitization are causing the volumes of data to grow. Older technologies aren’t keeping up with the change despite rising maintenance costs. Travel companies must contend with a complex set of ever-changing products and services. Hospitality companies require the ability to provide premium services at a lower cost. Meanwhile, airlines are forced to compete with low-cost alternatives.

whitePaper | January 22, 2020

The travel technology world is thriving, with a considerable amount of innovation occurring in Ireland. To highlight this, Enterprise Ireland, the trade and development agency of the Irish government, commissioned Atmosphere Research Group, an independent and objective travel industry market research firm, to prepare this Thought Leadership Paper. Atmosphere Research interviewed 10 of Enterprise Ireland’s portfolio companies, forming our own opinions about each firm. The report also includes data from Atmosphere’s proprietary studies of travelers in five countries that Enterprise Ireland selected:

whitePaper | July 23, 2021

Business travel is a branch of the tourism industry focusing on visitors who travel for business and professional purposes. According to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), the share of GDP generated by the business travel market reached 0.7 percent in 2019. In that year, the business tourism spending worldwide - which has more than doubled since 2000 - peaked at roughly 1.28 trillion U.S. dollars. Corporations use a wide variety of ways to book from legacy booking systems to using regular consumer websites. It has given rise to modern Corporate Booking Platforms that are specifically made for this purpose, based on this trend we identified an enormous opportunity for a crypto company to jump on this trend and be able to have an extremely disruptive and superior go to market strategy.

whitePaper | February 22, 2020

For most travel managers, corporate travel spend is expected to decrease while expectations for a pleasurable travel experience remain high. Of travel dollars going toward internal initiatives alone, most companies already spend more than 50% of their budget. In response, Advito’s April Bridgeman and LinkedIn’s Leslie Hadden share their tips to faciliate the most practical, enjoyable and cost-effective travel experiences for employees.

whitePaper | December 7, 2022

Despite significant advances throughout travel and tourism, many aspects of international travel remain encumbered by manual processes that are susceptible to fraud. For many years, aspiring voices from government and industry have advocated a vision of better travel experiences. A vision where outdated paper-based processes are replaced by modern digital processes that include strong identity assurance; and where passengers can travel from anywhere to anywhere using just their Digital Identity1 But as both the travel and tourism sectors – and the technology that underpins them – have been transformed, it is important for governments to begin developing their own strategies to deliver safe, secure and seamless travel for all international travelers, regardless of their mode of transport.