Amadeus launches Travel Visionary podcast series

Amadeus, the world's leading supplier of IT solutions to the travel and tourism industry, is pleased to announce the launch our Travel Visionary podcast series on our website.

We asked some of the travel industry’s leading players to give us their vision of the future of travel.

How do they see the industry evolving in the next few years?

In what ways will technology either drive this change or be affected by it?

Amadeus’ first visionary guests are James White (Director Global Automation Marketing, The Hertz Corporation), Olufemi Adefope (Managing Director, HRG Nigeria), Rashid Al Noori (Chairman, Business Travel) and Pierre Marcy (Director Customers & Communication, SNCM).

In one of the podcasts’ highlights James White tells us that he thinks "mobile technology is only a tool which helps the individual to communicate far more effectively and to access the information." Olufemi Adefope thinks that "user-generated content is going back to the saying that we must always listen to our clients. You have to listen."

"I think that in the next five years there will be more information available at your fingertips and the most significant example of that is the iPhone," says Rashid Al Noori in his interview, and Pierre Marcy rounds things off by saying: "What I see in terms of travel purchase will be consumption - online purchase - and all inclusive trips."

Our travel visionaries are all forward thinkers on the cutting edge of the travel industry today. With their help Amadeus can better understand the future needs of travellers and the companies that provide services to them. In this way we will keep the technology we offer one step – or more – ahead of our competitors.

From www.amadeus.com anyone can subscribe to the Travel Visionary podcasts and automatically receive all future episodes directly to their computer.