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Zartico secures $20M to help tourism offices promote local destinations

TechCrunch

Despite representing 10% of the world’s GDP, the tourism industry has been one of the last to embrace big data and analytics. Using it, customers can see where visitors to a location migrate and move at the street level and track the tourism effects on locally owned businesses. Image Credits: Zartico. social media posts and web pages).

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When natural disasters strike Japan, ?ita University’s EDiSON is ready to act

CIO

We have high hopes that the EDiSON initiative will become a platform that will lead to the improvement of disaster resilience in Japan and the world,” says Shinya Honda, Chief Manager of the Advanced Technology Challenge Division, Commerce, Industry, Tourism, and Labor Department, Oita Prefecture.

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IT to thank for most of Radisson Hotel Group’s business initiatives

CIO

From an organizational standpoint, we evolved to a nearshore model, attracting the necessary talent that new technologies required. And we did it not only to be closer to operations, but to take advantage of the potential that Spain offers in human capital within the tourism sector. How have you rebuilt all the IT talent?

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

CIOs anticipate an increased focus on cybersecurity (70%), data analysis (55%), data privacy (55%), AI/machine learning (55%), and customer experience (53%). Dental company SmileDirectClub has invested in an AI and machine learning team to help transform the business and the customer experience, says CIO Justin Skinner.

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Travel Startups and Tourism Trends to Invest In

Altexsoft

In this article, we’ll mention the budding tourism trends and give six examples of startups that capitalize on the changes in the industry. According to the latest report by the Global Wellness Institute, wellness tourism shrank by 39 percent during the pandemic. Artificial intelligence will change the travel industry in the future.

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How Digital Transformation Can Help Your Business Grow?

OTS Solutions

Overview of Digital Transformation Digital transformation means the operational, cultural, and organizational changes within an organization’s ecosystem with the help of modern technologies such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile apps, etc.

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Minut tells your Airbnb guests to keep it down, already, sheesh

TechCrunch

Having been at Apple and having worked with a lot of technologies that were ahead of the times, in terms of combining machine learning and privacy. Minut claims that Airbnb thinks that’s a very good idea: “Airbnb is actively promoting responsible and sustainable tourism. “Years later, that idea came back to me.

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