Travel Technology

Lots of user adoption needs to take place before this passenger of the future can actually get through the airport faster.

Mobile ticketing will be commonplace on U.S. and international transit lines in the near future and we expect adoption to soar above 25% when that time comes.

How many people will trade in their privacy for a few extra deals? Beacon technology vendors will need to provide lots of benefits to the users to get them on board.

For hotels that don't have the resources to develop their own apps, the Alice hotel app and concierge service, and others like it, could be a useful solution for making concierge services more mobile-oriented.

TripIt's premise is that business travelers will want to look at some pics and get some tips from Trover about restaurants and attractions during business trips. And, besides, when the business trip ends, a leisure trip often begins.

In-flight calls are inevitable, but the rules surrounding their use and the etiquette that will arise is yet to be seen.

Mobile bookings are on the rise worldwide and increased adoption in Asia is more likely due to the kind of devices that people own than their booking preferences.

Every travel brand engaged in mobile -- and that should be all of them -- should read about Booking.com's big-picture vision for mobile. Hipmunk and Expedia are also going down this road, albeit to a lesser degree.

We're no doubt in the middle of a new arms race in connectivity. Will better flight tracking go hand-in-hand with faster download speeds?

There are too few travelers with Google Glass to make a hotel booking app useful -- outside of the PR buzz -- at this point.