Top 8 Travel Trends You Need to Know for 2019

Its hard to predict what the travel industry will look like in 20 years but we're excited for what's ahead!

As we continue to evolve from a GDS to a live travel space, we look forward to building our future together with all of our customers and other travel players.- Amadeus..

1. Personalization will remain a top priority for all areas of the travel industry
Travel personalization
is top of mind
Anticipate traveler's needs, understand challenges use data, analytics and business intelligence to address this challenges.

Whether you’re an airline, hotel, travel agent or travel manager, understanding how to better extract customer insights from data will remain key for success in 2019.

2. Continual rise of rich content, including NDC content

Rich content and industrialization for NDSs
New approaches to merchandizing and technology standards.
Content from multiple sources, possibly under different business models-its's paramount for travel business to customize how content is managed for their business.

3. Increased complexity raises need for aggregation, search and comparison

Need for aggregation, search and comparison
Today's travelers look for unique experiences based on choice and personalization across all channels aggregating content will be key for travel sellers to compare and provide the level of personalization that today's travelers demand

4. Greater collaboration across the travel industry

Greater collaboration is seen across the travel industry
As technology is transforming how we research, book and share travel experiences.

More APIs, agile partnerships, and co-creation will continue to move the industry forward

5. The rise of millennial business travelers

Rise of millennial business travelers.
As millennial emerge as a pre-eminent force in travel Consumption the industry must wake up to their new attitudes.

They will account for almost 50% of travel spend by 2020.

6. Travel policies, including ‘bleisure’ and traveler wellbeing will become an increasingly important priority for travel managers

'Bleisure' and traveler wellbeing an increasing priority
As business travel grows, So will the 'bleisure' trends with more employees taking advantage of business travel and improved travel policies.

50% business travelers say travel policy impact their decision to take a job
44% business travelers would leave a job due to poor travel policy

7. Travel players will deploy more technologies to offset potential disruption

Technologies to offset disruption

Improvements in technological capabilities will allow airports, airlines, hotels, travel sellers, and all other players to meet increasing traveler expectations.
We'll see more investment in big data process automation and the internet of things, as the industry focuses on the perfect passenger experience, both on the ground and in the air.

8. The rise of smart cities will boost travel and tourism

The rise of smart cities to boost travel and tourism
Multi-modal journeys and data to deliver more personalized and smart experiences will lead to the rise of smart cities. This will enable the immersive travel experiences and services that travelers expect in the future.