Amadeus Travel Visionary Series

Pierre Marcy, Director Customers & Communication, SNCM

08/05/2008

What I see in terms of travel purchase will be consumption, - online purchase - and all inclusive trips. The possibility of not only being able to view everything that the customer will be able to experience, but having as few intermediaries as possible.

Olufemi Adefope, Managing Director, HRG Nigeria

08/05/2008

User-generated content is going back to the old saying that we must always listen to our clients. You have to listen. So if the user has his own inventories and his own requests, if you're not listening and proactively anticipating the needs of that customer, then you will be left behind.

Rashid Al Noori, Chairman, Business Travel

08/05/2008

I don't know about the next year, but I think that in the next five years there will be more information available at your fingertips and I think that probably the most significant example of that is the iPhone, which has tremendous content and great access to the web, very fast and very quick.

James White, Director Global Automation Marketing, The Hertz Corporation

08/05/2008

Mobile technology in itself is not the key answer on how people will travel today or will travel in the future. It is only a tool which helps the individual to communicate far more effectively and to access the information, and I think that it will continue to evolve and will continue to improve.