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The FOMO Factor

FOMO - Fear Of Missing Out Even before Facebook, Instagram, Twitter era, many people who use to travel overseas for leisure, use to click photos, return home and share their amazing travel stories flaunting photos for months in their social circle. Dinners, lunches, kitty parties were specially organized to show off. Been there Done that (BTDT) was a common phrase and a motivator which would serve as a big emotional satisfier of ego, image, status, popularity, respect, that would enhance a sense of accomplishment, which fostered confidence as well as security and served as a big mark of success. With the world economy treading hockey curve, many people upgraded to the rich bracket. New Innovations, business models in the travel industry, and demand and supply dynamics resulted in Declining travel costs and increasing accessibility plus affordability. With the advent of Facebook and other social media trends, the BTDT motivator rose exponentially and more people expressed their great ...
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Relocate with Confidence

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RELOCATE WITH CONFIDENCE CAPSTONE PROJECT: THE BATTLE OF NEIGHBORHOODS (WEEK 1) 1. BACKGROUND: Ever since the US President Donald Trump tightened the visa policies for existing and new immigrants to the USA, the US companies have started to look at Canada as an alternative playground for their businesses, especially the IT companies which depend on skilled workers from all over the world. Canada Government took the opportunity to offer new visa schemes for skilled workers to immigrate to Canada, Toronto, Ontario as an example has offered many nouvelle benefits for such companies and its workers. A global relocation company has a huge demand from their customers to provide Canada Destination Information and best match of the neighborhoods for their clients. They have asked me to build a program on their app, in which the clients just need to enter the city from where they are moving into Toronto and the system matches them to the best neighborhood, so that people c...
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Recommender Systems in Tourism

Nowadays, many people use online services to plan and book a trip. But! due to huge amount of information available online and plethora of possibilities, firstly they have to invest a lot of time to decide where to visit, when to visit, what to do, Secondly, it is very difficult to discern   the more interesting offers from the rest and thirdly many good offers go unnoticed. Therefore In order to improve the travelers’ experience, the recommender systems select the more suitable and adequate offers for them and offers activities appropriate to their profile. On the other side, the travel companies who want to construct a sustainable relationship with their customers to drive growth need to engage with the individual customers in a way that creates a memorable event by moving beyond the trip into travelers’ daily lives by offering personalized services. These companies not only wish to engage with their existing customers but they also want someone to recommend their products...
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3D Printing in Travel & Tourism Industry

3D Printing Traditional manufacturing is a subtractive process, which is about taking a big piece of metal or any material and then cutting out/ hollowing out or subtracting some part of it to get a finished product. Modern manufacturing used subtractive and additive processes, which is creating molds that may be using the subtractive process and then adding liquid metal/filler material to the mold to create objects. The additive manufacturing is a pure additive process, which is making three dimensional solid projects by layering material in a required shape, 3D printing is such an additive process where the material is analogous to the ink of the printer which is layered using a printer head, the information of layers is stored in a digital file and software is used to execute the digital file, each layer is a sliced cross-section of the eventually to be finished object. 3D printing technique uses less material, produces complex shapes & designs and is capable of producing...
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Identity management in Tourism in the Future.

Let's use the scenario of air travel. The numerator is convenience and the denominator is the security. Whatever advances are being proposed and obtained are to increase the convenience of the travelers and the people enabling the travel while maintaining the high level of security of the borders and the people with those borders. How did you use your identity document when you travel earlier around the 1980s? After the first industrial revolution and the advent of aircraft, only a few rich and wealthy people with great status could afford air travel, the who's and who would no need to prove their identity and would get a smooth passage but then many people started to get rich and were able to afford the air travel and the focus completely shifted from sea travel to air travel for international trade and tourism. In the 1980s, to travel domestically we hardly used any document, we were not asked to produce any identity document to book an air ticket and check-in and...
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Maximising Blockchain's Potential in T&T

Everyone is talking about and watching how the Blockchain is and can revolutionize the way business transactions are and will be conducted across their respective business spectrum. I have learned much from IBM tutorials and I have my own disposition regarding Blockchain and its potential in our travel and tourism industry. So what is it? Blockchain belongs to the DARQ Tech, where D stands for Distributed Ledger and blockchain is a logical model to implement distributed ledger.  What is a Distributed Ledger? A ledger in accounting terms is a book that records the transactions. In IT term a book is a database, so associatively it is a database that records the transaction, it is decentralized, there is no one central repository, authority or a third party mediator performing the bookkeeping, it is distributed, the work on this ledger and the information stored on this ledger is not localized to one system, it is distributed and shared among various participatin...
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All that you would need is a phone to travel, don't forget it and always keep it charged else you could be in trouble.

My teacher Jack Ma in one of his inspirational discussion spoke about his near future vision regarding travel, he said "one phone would be all that one would need to travel around the world". The digital revolution is making the vision come true. Let's assume a consumer international travel experience that has three distinct phases Pre-Travel, In-Travel and Post Travel. During all these phases there are certain activities that are desirable; Pre Travel - Passport, Visa, Air Tickets, Insurance, and Foreign Exchange. In Travel - Check-ins, Purchases, Payments, Photo capture, Sharings, Maps, and Translations. Post Travel - Refunds, Feedback, and Repurchase. For Passport - All Passports will soon be electronic passports with embedded chips and data, these passports would be used to self-scan on the e-gates for permitted entry. The new passports are similar to the old passport and would have three unique usages, it has a data page that contains travelers' aut...
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