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Impact of COVID19 pandemic on Indian Travel & Tourism sector and the way ahead

  The Travel and Tourism industry across the world celebrated 27 th September as World Tourism day. Since its initiation in 1980, the purpose of this day is to raise awareness on the role of tourism in everyone’s life and how it affects social, cultural, political and economic values worldwide. Image by Alexandra_Koch from Pixabay In 2020, the day was celebrated amid a global crisis caused by COVID19 which has brought the world to a standstill. It is ironical that while we celebrate this day, COVID19 has made our families confined to home, avoid socializing with friends, avoid a long drive, avoid having a nice dinner with family, avoid a spa session, the list is endless. Everything that hospitality industry stands for and caters to has been constrained by the pandemic. The COVID19 outbreak, lockdowns and life After COVID19 outbreak several countries across globe declared long term total lockdowns including closure of industries, businesses, educational institutions and do...

Using Artificial Intelligence in Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Industry

 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a buzzword for recent years and it has impacted many business sectors including banking, agriculture, manufacturing and retail, many sectors have benefited by Artificial Intelligence. The concept of artificial intelligence has existed earlier, evolved over the years and has no straightforward definition. We invented computers to execute tasks and programming languages to define tasks. AI is an evolved technique to train a machine to take certain decisions and execute tasks.   Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay  Basically AI refers to a mechanism performing tasks on behalf of human beings that would normally require human intelligence to carry out. The tasks could be learning instructions, processing data, taking decisions, or listening and interpreting communication. Understanding AI with real life examples When we talk about AI, we talk about automation, where processes are executed with little or no human involvement. And the applicati...