siliconindia | | November 20199important than ever that companies find a strategic partner who can help them overcome challenges in this evolving corporate travel landscape. Authorization workflows, personalisation, fluidity of travel plans are having organizations asking, how can we leverage technology to help service to fulfil corporate travellers' changing needs? Leveraging Technology for Corporate Travellers' NeedsWith mobile technology readily available at their fingertips, corporate travellers have access to more options and can easily change travel plans on-the-go. This presents an opportunity to empower corporate travellers with access to consumer friendly, intuitive booking tools and apps that will help them manage travel from any device seamlessly. The most popular technologies are those that cover pressing needs such as checking flight status, accessing boarding pass, changing hotel or flight bookings, navigation, and booking rides; and the very best apps are those that offer personalisation based on a traveller's history.By leveraging capabilities offered by these mobile travel technologies, travel managers can better design their travel policies to drive policy compliance. With the added ability to track their corporate traveller's preferences, they can also identify opportunities for cost savings with their respective vendors. Future Technologies Impacting Corporate TravelWe are going through exciting times where technology transformations are revolutionizing how and where we travel. New technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), autonomous vehicles, and chatbots may still be an infancy stage in APAC but it is imaginable that they may soon become part and parcel of the corporate travel industry. AI's can drastically reduce the load of repetitive tasks--whether physical or digital--freeing man hours for higher value, more creative work. For corporate travel, AI may be introduced to complement and improve efficiencies in personalization by curating search results or giving local restaurant recommendations for corporate travellers who are often tied for time.When autonomous vehicles are combined with other technologies, like biometric identity using block chain, it is easy to imagine a world in which travel becomes a virtually hands-free process. Imagine having an autonomous suitcases or autonomous personal porters programmed to follow busy corporate travellers, who are either responding to emails on their mobile phones or reviewing documents, through airports, train stations and city streets.We see tremendous opportunities for businesses to start experimenting with and implementing technologies that can help them create efficiencies, unlock human value and increase profits as they enhance the corporate traveller experience. At Sabre Labs (innovation centre within Sabre) we continue to explore how new technologies will impact the travel ecosystem over the next decade. With our commitment to innovation, we consistently create cutting edge, end-to-end solutions that can help our partners predict, disrupt and share the travel landscape ­ putting them first with today's hyper-connected, mobile traveller. When autonomous vehicles are combined with other technologies like biometric identity using block chain, it is easy to imagine a world in which travel becomes a virtually hands-free processAnupam Bokil
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