Articles tagged “megatrends”

Africa’s tourism growth challenge isn’t demand — it’s execution: scaling reliable operations, mid-market infrastructure, and globally exportable talent to turn world-class assets into sustainable volume growth.

India has the demand, albeit from within, to help tourism meet its potential. All it needs now are the policy reforms that the industry has been seeking for decades.

2026 promises continued condensed booking windows and last-minute sourcing decisions as planners grapple with budgetary and geopolitical uncertainty.

The next 12–24 months will reward operators who act on trends early, not those who wait for certainty.

Business travel is going to look a lot different when autonomous driving removes structural friction and the math starts shifting. Serving this new kind of travel is the real opportunity.

It's extremely difficult to see how the online travel agencies emerge from the LLM platform shift unscathed.

In 2026, the luxury bubble will swell. As wealth concentrates, premium becomes the engine of global tourism. The risk? When travel depends on the top 10% — and, increasingly, the top 1% — the entire industry rises and falls with them.

AI-powered "vibe coding" is turning travel sector insiders into amateur developers and product designers. A coming wave of new startups and digital services may fix travel's innovation problem.

With green marketing collapsing and net-zero plans unravelling, the industry must finally face reality: Its current climate strategy won’t work. A fundamental rethink begins now.

For decades, railways were the romantic sideshow to the jet age – a sepia-toned indulgence for nostalgists and hardened eco-warriors. No longer.