Category: Technology

Behavioural economics can nudge pilots into greater fuel efficiency finds study

Working collaboratively with academics, Virgin Atlantic increased Captains’ awareness of the measures they could take to improve on fuel efficiency.

New app helps hotel guests fight human trafficking

TraffickCam allows any traveler with a smartphone to help fight sex trafficking by uploading photos of their hotel room to an enormous, constantly updated database of hotel room images

How bad is cruising for our environment?

Consumer pressure is not likely to go away but neither is it likely to be sufficient to achieve change on the scale needed

Tour operator app aims to boost Southern African rural tourism 

app will assist tour operators with the process of sourcing new, emerging and community-based tourism businesses and experiences for their tours and itineraries

Airbnb, Blockchain, and the tourism reputation economy

Responsible tourism has generally had an uneasy relationship with technological development, which is often seen as disempowering and detaching us from the world around. However if – and it is still a big early days if – the likes of blockchain and the growing ‘reputation economy’ deliver on the promises they are making – it may one day become its new best friend.

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