The luxury tourism industry is undergoing significant change with the digital revolution. Emerging technologies reshape how tourists pay and communicate. Photo courtesy: Shutterstock
Editor?s note:The luxury tourism industry is undergoing significant change at the hands of the digital revolution. Emerging technologies have reshaped the way tourists pay for travels and how they communicate during the trip. Let?s take a look at what Jing Travel has to say.
It?s hard to understate the transformative power of Chinese travel. The rise of Chinese tourism, both in the number of tourists and spending, is forcing destinations and tourism firms around the world reorient their priorities. But it?s also spurring a transformation in different fields of consumer technology not directly connected to tourism. A recent example is a new pocket translator released through a partnership between Ctrip, China?s largest online travel marketplace, and Baidu, the technology firm responsible for the Baidu search engine and the Baidu Translate software. The small device will have its own SIM card capable of functioning in over 80 countries and will also serve as a WiFi hotspot.
This type of tool could help overcome a major obstacle to the growth of Chinese travel. The vast majority of Western travelers have little issue, linguistically, with global travel. While an American traveler may go to a country where most of the residents don?t speak English, the chances of going somewhere where no one speaks...