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Skift
15-07-2025
- Business
- Skift
What AI and Tech Disruption Means for Travel Jobs
The travel industry is once again standing at the edge of a major technological transformation. Just as the rise of online booking platforms redefined travel agencies in the early 2000s, the advent of AI, particularly agentic and generative AI, may soon redraw the talent landscape across the travel sector. To get a better understanding of how the latest developments in AI are affecting employment in the travel industry particular, Skift Research undertook an analysis of government employment data to see what we could learn from past technological disruptions, and what upcoming shifts we can anticipate in the near future. Travel's Tech Gap and the Catch-Up Potential Despite travel's rapid digitalization over the past two decades, the sector remains surprisingly light on tech talent. Computer-related roles, such as software engineers and web developers, comprise only 0.25% of travel jobs in the U.S., according to Bur
South China Morning Post
08-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
‘Unprepared' Japan struggles with airport chaos, bin shortages amid tourist boom
As Japan rides a wave of record-breaking tourist arrivals, foreign visitors are voicing growing frustrations over lengthy immigration queues, overcrowded attractions and a surprising lack of public rubbish bins – issues analysts say could hinder the nation's goal of welcoming 60 million tourists a year by 2030. Advertisement A Japan Tourism Agency (JTA) survey found that while more than half of respondents had smooth travel experiences, many noted infrastructure and service issues at airports and tourist spots. The findings come as preliminary data suggest Japan is on track to exceed 40 million overseas arrivals in 2025, up from a historic high of 36.9 million last year. Travel sector experts say Japan's airport bottlenecks reflect deeper structural inefficiencies, with overlapping bureaucracies and outdated procedures slowing the influx of visitors. Japan is a long way behind Singapore and Dubai, where people can preregister and effectively walk straight through automated immigration procedures Ashley Harvey, travel marketing analyst 'Part of the problem is that the authorities still seem to be unprepared, despite the government's targets and rising numbers of arrivals,' said Ashley Harvey, a travel marketing analyst who has worked in Japan's travel sector for more than 15 years.
