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BUSINESS TRAVEL
WILL CHANGE IN 2017
WITH ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY , A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD AND A SHIFT IN PERSPECTIVE ABOUT HOW BUSINESS TRAVEL SHOULD LOOK ( AND FEEL ), THE OPTIONS FOR BUSINESS TRAVELLERS HAVE NEVER BEEN GREATER . REBEKAH KENDAL CHATTED TO THOSE IN THE BUSINESS OF TRAVEL ABOUT HOW HITTING THE ROAD FOR WORK IS LIKLEY TO CHANGE THIS YEAR .
More integrated tech Over the past few years machine
learning and location-based functionality have come together in fairly impressive ways , says Hadlee Simons , editor of tech and gadget site Gearburn , pointing to Siri , Google Now and Cortana . “ Some of these services offer
Hadlee Simons says more integrated tech will dominate business travel in 2017 .
comprehensive reminders , airline boarding passes , weather and all sorts of other relevant information throughout your journey . We ’ ve also seen Google launch its Trips app in 2016 , which combines its Google Now features with other Google services for a better travel
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experience . For instance , the app dives into your location history to give you a timeline of your travels , while also using your Google Photos library to show off snaps from the trips in question . “ I fully expect the big players to use their various services in a less siloed , more cohesive manner to offer a better business travel experience .” Simons also suspects that virtual reality will soon find its way into travel marketing and onto flights in the form of VR headsets that will give passengers a far superior ( and private ) media experience .
Rise of the sharing economy
Business travellers can expect to see continued growth in the sharing economy , according to the Advito Industry Forecast 2017 . Uber , for
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