Tourism Ireland organizes technology conference

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

On April 10th, Tourism Ireland organized a conference in the Aviva Stadium of Dublin, to boost up the drivers and facilitate the effect of technological changes on tourism.

 
The conference targets to create an understanding among people associated with the tourism sector in terms of the effect upcoming technologies on their businesses. Also, it will look at the way to take complete advantage of new technologies in order to develop their business. Talks will revolve around the nature and drivers of technological change like artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, accelerated computing, data and MarTech, along with changes in the behavior of consumers and will draw the opportunities and risks these offer.

 
A board of expert speakers will emphasize the number of changes under way and how it’s related to tourism. They will provide case studies along with workshops particularly geared towards the tourism and travel. The main speaker is futurist Gerd Leonhard – one of the main voices on a wide range of topics like digital transformation and the opportunities and challenges it presents.

 
To quote Niall Gibbons, CEO of Tourism Ireland, “The strong attendance by tourism representatives from across the island of Ireland at our conference today demonstrates the importance of technology in our industry and the critical need to look to the future of Irish and global tourism, in the face of fast-moving technology advances. The conference will discuss some of the exciting developments in the digital world, how these will affect the tourism industry specifically and how tourism companies can understand and leverage emerging travel tech to win business.”

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