Skift Take
Hospitality is all about the very human trait of empathy. And businesses need to remember that humans should remain front and center to create incredible experiences, helped — but in no way supplanted — by modern technology.
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Yesterday we released our annual travel industry trends forecast, Skift Megatrends 2017. You can read about each of the trends on Skift, or download a copy of our magazine here.
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Back in early 2014, Skift came out with a new report and framework for looking at the digitally adept traveler, what we called "The Rise of the Silent Traveler."
This is how we described it: "The rise of digital has given rise to a new kind of traveler adept at all available online and mobile tools, and uses them to jump across all industry-defined silos. These new travelers don't need tons of handholding, they shun human interacti