Reporting live from the Global Travel and Tourism Summit, Beijing All atwitter over mobile technology

MOBILE technology and social networking now present tremendous business opportunities for the tourism industry, according to delegates at the 10th Global Travel and Tourism Summit in Beijing.

  31/05/2010 08:31
China Tourism Academy vice president Dai Bin said technology had transformed in leaps and bounds over the last 20 years. A technology launched in Europe yesterday would be available in China today. "Technology has made the world flat," he said.

Expedia president and CEO, Dara Khosrowshali, said an experiment by the company that urged its clients share their travel destinations via an ad on Facebook had attracted one billion posts in just a year and a half.

Khosrowshali said the use of mobile technology and social network presented incredible opportunity for the tourism industry.

Anthony Tyler, IATA chairman and Cathay Pacific CEO, however raised concerns over who would make money out of technology and who would own customers' "valuable" data. (Sources: Sirima Eamtako, Beijing, TTG Asia)
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