http://www.globalchange.com Future of the travel industry, leisure travel, tourism, holiday travel and business travel trends. Package holidays and city breaks. Lifestyle and demographic changes older travellers, single travellers. Long haul and short haul, future of airline industry, rail, tour operators and cruise vacations. How travel customers are changing and influenced by social networking sites such as tripadvisor. Why market research can give wrong messages to marketing teams. Future of hotels and self-catering accommodation. Ecotourism, adventure holidays and experiences. Discount travel and budget operators quality and service balanced against price and value. Popular destinations and investment opportunities in the travel industry. Selling travel packages online and through new digital channels such as iphone apps, mobile devices, Twitter campaigns. Conference keynote lecture by Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon, author of 13 books on global trends, for Google client event (travel industry), London December 2010.
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Crikey ! Management …
Crikey ! Management by spreadsheet is a comment I have made for the last few years. “They” are looking at the spreadsheet and not what is outside – the objective becomes trying to get the numbers in the spreadsheet correct. Crazy.
Your video about banking some time ago hit a chord. In discussion with a database vendor about 18 months ago they said they could see the supermarkets being the banks of the future. Its happenning now – Tesco in particular it seems.
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Well we will see. i predict that seat width and legroom will have to be adjusted – and airlines are already doing so by creating premium economy, charging significantly more. The challenge is that plane widths were set by manufacturers based on combinations such as 3 each side of aisle, and having only 2 plus 3 is a big extra cost.
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Thanks – I see this issue played out every day in corporations, where people spend hours looking at spreadsheets and so on. Great – but customers can surprise us by behaving very differently than previous data suggested. We need insight to have true foresight.
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Love the comment:
“We are rational human beings; your customers are not”
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You talked about how Airline companies need to keep in mind that their seats are small and that flights are unpleasant if placed between two overweight individuals. Don’t you think people have already voted with their dollars that they prefer the cheapest price, no matter how unpleasant?
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