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MUMBAI: Generative AI has stolen the limelight from Metaverse at least in the aviation industry, with 97% airlines planning a program to develop it, according to a megatrends report released by a company that offers IT solutions to the air transport industry. “While some megatrends identified in 2022 have witnessed rapid growth in the last 12 months, others also continued to develop, including Digital Travel, with the emergence of digital identities,” said the report by SITA, which highlighted the industry’s rapidly changing innovation landscape.It examined 12 emerging technological, societal, traveler, and economic trends that will significantly morph the travel landscape by 2033. According to the SITA 2023 Air Transport IT Insights, by the end of 2026, 82% of airlines will use biometric...

I remember exactly where I was when Covid-19 really started to impact travel. It was March 2020: I was in the UK, watching a news broadcast about how the country was shutting down all travel while simultaneously reading a notification on my phone that my flight back to the United States the following day was canceled.Fortunately, I managed to rebook the flight and got back home safely, and the world settled in for months and years of limited travel, closed borders, and homemade bread-baking (my focaccia came out beautifully).That UK trip had been my first solo trip abroad, and it gave me a taste for travel that I hadn’t felt since the family trips of my youth, when my father would schlep us kids through airports and across oceans on journeys of discovery. As an adult, I craved adventure a...

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