We have a right to be left alone. The state must not know everything about us. It must not penetrate our private affairs. The right to privacy is a human right. It can be interpreted differently in different countries.

no-fly-registers of people who are denied to board an aircraft. The data of air passengers are accumulated and retained, including even their food preferences. When entering a country, fingerprints may be taken or the iris may be scanned. There are data bases for visa information. We have security cameras at airports, railway stations and public places.

We are talking about the effects of globalisation here. Travelling has become very cheap. This has changed tourism, and it has changed the situation of the locals. The global village has become a reality not only online, but also offline. Surely this affects the right to privacy. Let’s keep talking about the Berlin staircase: Some tourist might find it so attractive that he takes a video of it, maybe even capturing someone who actually lives in the house and does not like to see strangers there. Afterwards the video goes viral. Offline becomes online. And the side effect: The video might have contributed to data profiles that make it easy to draw conclusions about the people concerned.

Social media plays an ever-increasing role in recruitment and selection

Likewise, many hospitality businesses are now using social media as a powerful recruitment tool, which is believed to be cost-effective and can quickly generate candidates for vacancies

Although SMPs could provide additional valuable information to hiring managers, they found that Facebook ratings actually did not do a better job in predicting job candidates' future performance, such as supervisor ratings of job performance, turnover intentions, and their actual turnover than the more traditional predictors, including personality, cognitive ability, and self-efficacy.

PPC is a way to quickly get your marketing message in front of the people who are likely to have an interest in your offers.

Some keywords are tough to rank for, even with the most rigorous SEO program. An example would be if your city holds an annual event. It would be great to gain bookings from people who search for information on the event. But gaining quality placements in the organic search results for event-related phrases may not be feasible as a quality Search Engine Optimization program can take time.  That’s when bidding and gaining exposure through PPC advertising on event related phrases could be done for a short amount of time proceeding and during the event.

Promote last minute bookings with a sense of urgency (book for tonight for only $79).

But now they are "behaving closer to human form, sometimes even better than humans but only in very artificial domains," he says.

If you sell to Walmart, you might have already met one. An AI system developed by Pactum was tested by the giant US retailer.A chatbot contacts suppliers, and invites them to renegotiate together contracts over things like price and payment terms.

"We now see that some vendors prefer talking to a bot. If there are tens of thousands of vendors, it's hard to get human attention sometimes," says Martin Rand, chief executive of Pactum, which is based in Tallinn and Silicon Valley.

Airlines are stuck with a limited number of distribution capabilities as three major players on the market (Amadeus, Sabre, and Travelport) dominate the distribution landscape.

It’s still hard for small online travel agencies and other travel distribution businesses to enter the market because such giants as Expedia and Booking Holdings own most of the market.

In this article, we will look at the history of flight booking: from the beginning of the first semi-automatic systems to modern e-ticketing and online booking. We chose events that depict the gradual change of reservation systems, giving a solid understanding of how airline distribution developed. By looking at this history timeline, you’ll be able to understand, at least partially, how the modern flight reservation market formed.

Imagine today’s scenario where any established travel technology/ e-commerce company is required to process 3-4 billion travel itineraries on a daily basis! With the need to handle searches at faster speeds, it is imperative to diligently cache at the edge of the cloud. Managing the scale and being in control of the cost structure is vital, and cloud is an integral part of the solution.

While this is a common phenomenon with start-ups, legacy companies like airlines, banks etc. struggle with such transition from a traditional hosting environment.

The biggest challenge that any company faces when they put their business in cloud remains the issue of data security management, mentioned Wang. 

“We really wanted to immerse guests into our interface, allowing them to browse hotels with a relevant immersive background of the location they are searching. We allow the customer to explore the hotel almost as if a hotel manager is walking with you, giving you a tour and telling you a story. That is an important part here; storytelling in VR is the key to creating these immersive experiences that people are looking for and enjoying the most.”

It’s straightforward: the user downloads the app onto his or her VR device and will then have the ability to browse for hotels by location and date and view live deals.

Especially now, having VR available is quite possibly the closest way guests can experience the joy of traveling and staying at a hotel.

The CovidDeep app is 90%-plus accurate in predicting whether a person is virus-free or virus-positive, and is twice as effective as current triage tools, such as temperature checks and questionnaires, according to the developers.

“CovidDeep has been developed as a rapid screening tool to help businesses such as hospitality venues maintain a COVID-19 safe environment,” said Dr. Adel Laoui, CEO/founder, NeuTigers. “Currently, venues rely on screening tools such as temperature checks, which are only used to detect symptomatic cases and are less than 50% accurate in detecting whether a person has COVID-19.

Proven rigorous clinical studies show it to be 90% accurate in detecting if a person is SARS-CoV-2 virus positive, even if they have no symptoms (asymptomatic). It is able to do this at scale, in real-time and cost-effectively.”