Skift Travel Megatrend for 2016: Smart Cities Are Now Platforms
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Cities often tell us more than we know what to do with, but with the right thinking this surfeit of intelligence can be turned into an exceptional opportunity to distinguish destinations.
In January we launched our annual package, Megatrends Defining Travel in 2016, where we identified the global trends in travel in 2016 and beyond.
This will be the year when cities start leveraging their exponentially growing volume of open data to provide new services for travelers. While long anticipated, it’s only now where the “City As Platform” concept is evolving into a functional urban operating system to support the hype around smart cities.
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Internet of Things Meets the City
2016 will be the year when cities start leveraging their exponentially growing volume of open data to provide new services for travelers. While long anticipated, it’s only now where the “City As Platform” concept
