The 2024 Innovation Report will offer detailed insight of who’s spending how much on what in the UK travel industry. Our excusive analysis of Office for National Statistics data will show how travel agents, tour operators, hotel companies, cruise and ferry operators, and aviation firms are spending in five areas of IT, as we continue to make amends for the effects of the pandemic. The report will also highlight the trajectory for the future and the top opportunities.

This session will see founders from our first round of travel start-ups each give short five-minute elevator pitches about their companies in front of a panel of industry experts who have two minutes to grill them on their plans.

This session will see the founders of four travel start-ups each give short five-minute elevator pitches about their companies in front of a panel of industry experts who have two minutes to grill them on their plans.

A new segment for the Start-up and Innovation Summit. Each year, we’ll welcome back a previous winner of the Travolution Start-up of the Year award or a successful company that is now out of the start-up stage, to share important learnings from their journey to success and what their origin story looked like.

We’ve done some work with our community this year to find out what keeps people up most at night and what area they’re most focused on. Automation was top for many. In this session we find out what’s new when it comes to automation and where it can catapult business to as a result.

Moderator:

Kate Harden-England, editor, Travolution

We’ve heard “data is the new oil” for far too long now and we know that data is instrumental when it comes to growth opportunities but what exactly do we need to implement and how do we achieve this. This session will explore various elements that play into growing a company’s capability to deliver real results.

Breaking down barriers and friction points to result in a less fragmented user experience for travellers is critical. Payment solution providers can hold the key to this success.

How can you offer value beyond payments? What does this entail and how does it boost ROI? From rewards and loyalty to partnerships, and more, how can we address pain points for high speed, low cost and secure payments.

This one-on-one interview will delve into how the CEO of an industry leader has transformed the way it approaches its business in order to answer its changing demands from travellers and the lesson along the way they have picked up. As part of that journey, how technology, interconnectivity and data will act as an enabler of this transformation for not just this travel giant, but others too.

An innovation journey is not linear. Nothing about change typically is. We hear from a well-known, house-hold name for UK travellers on how they have tackled injecting innovation into its offering by diversifying its product set to push itself to new limits.