Travel companies should choose their ancillary services wisely
In an era where customer experience (CX) reigns supreme, travel companies are diversifying revenue streams to enhance the customer journey. Ancillary services have emerged as a powerful tool, helping travel companies go beyond the traditional and deliver personalised, value-added experiences. Here, Sam Dunscombe, head of growth at eSIM SDK provider Mobilise, offers his advice for successfully harnessing value from ancillary revenue streams. “Unlocking ancillary revenue stream success“
New findings from Kaleido Intelligence predict that international travel trips will exceed pre-pandemic levels in 2024, marking a 3% increase from 2019 and surpassing 2 billion for the second time ever. Outbound travel recovery from China has been slow in 2023 and is expected to take another 12-18 months to return to pre-pandemic levels. Kaleido expects China to drive growth in 2024, with Asia-Pacific markets leading outbound (39%) and inbound (69%) year-over-year (y-o-y) increase. “2024 international travel boom predicted: Surpassing 2 billion trips”
In the last year, Brits have collectively accumulated over [£539 million (€629.05 million)] in unexpected roaming charges according to data from Uswitch. The convenience of staying connected often comes at a steep price – but it doesn’t need to be that way. Here, Hamish White, founder and CEO of eSIM (embedded-SIM) SDK (software development kit) provider Mobilise, explores a solution to this common travel pitfall, and how travel companies can take advantage of the opportunity roaming charges present to them.
BT and OneWeb have partnered with the UK government to provide high-speed internet connectivity to Lundy Island. Sitting 19 kilometres off the coast of North Devon, Lundy is the real-world example of how BT and OneWeb’s partnership can deliver benefits to remote locations both in the UK and beyond.
The A1 Group invests several hundreds of millions of euros per year in its networks. This is for group to continue to offer its customers the good products and services and to optimally meet an increasing demand for data, more bandwidth and low latency.
BT has partnered with Immersive Interactive to supply business and public sector clients with 5G-enabled simulations of real-world environments in an internal or external room, or mobile unit.
CONNECTOW, the consortium consisting of the city of Wavre and Citymesh has been awarded a €3,9 million grant from the European digital fund under the EU’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) to jointly help shape Europe’s digital future.
Telkomsel collaborates with ZTE to test the coverage of 5G transmitters in the maritime area based on the 2.3GHz frequency band in Gorontalo. In this collaboration, ZTE provides network equipment solutions to support Telkomsel in increasing the capacity and quality of broadband networks in Indonesia’s maritime region. Telkomsel and ZTE presented this collaboration in conjunction with the Mobile World Conference event in Barcelona on February 27, 2023.
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