IoT Plays a Huge Role in Post-Pandemic Travel, say Hospitality Industry key Players.

The travel and tourism industry has been trying to recover at a global scale post-pandemic. It is needless to say that the international travel sector suffered grave loss under the multiple pandemic waves. In fact, it continues to incur losses as things are slow to return to normalcy. However, the hospitality industry is gearing up to recover and emerge out of a period of loss and decline. This collective effort of the travel and tourism industry will achieve fruition when technology gives an impetus to the efforts. The decline in the hospitality and travel industry in the initial period of the pandemic resulted from the lack of preparedness. Moreover, the weakened digital infrastructure of the travel industry also plays a huge role in it.

Therefore, to emerge out of this rough patch, the travel industry needs to embrace technology and advancement. The key players of the global travel industry understand that the industry cannot forego the challenge of stepping up its digital infrastructure. Without digital infrastructure, the travel industry will remain prone to breakdown from emergency situations like a pandemic. Now that people have seen the scale of a pandemic, preparedness is necessary. Therefore, the travel industry will create and strengthen its digital infrastructure. A major contributor to the digital infrastructure is the IoT sector.

The travel industry will move from massive manpower to smart devices that operate on a global scale. This creates a great future opportunity for the IoT sector in extending its application. Market research and data analytics point towards this trend in the post-pandemic phase. There are many places where IoT devices can apply in the travel sector. For example, the screening process for COVID 19 infected is an important part of travel today. While travel point personnel do most of the work of screening today, it exposes them to many occupational hazards. The use of IoT devices in screening people at arrival and departure checkpoints will decrease the occupational risk. Moreover, it will reduce the timeframe of screening, making it faster.

Another instance of IoT application in the travel sector is the use of wearables that keep travelers alert about their health levels and social distancing rules. The wearable segment is anyway growing at a high rate on its own. The day is near when technology will touch the travel sector too.

Industry experts from both sides predict that the use of smart devices that pair up to have the ability to create a network that protects the future traveler virtually. The network will exist over different smart cities of the world and keep the travelers informed about the COVID safety levels in different cities. This will help the traveler in traveling with better precautions. Even in the hotel sector, the use of IoT devices is replacing manual force wherever possible. This creates true scope for the implementation of contactless services. From serving food to ordering food, controlling the temperature of a hotel room, to accessing the room, IoT devices work everywhere today.

The hospitality and travel industry will therefore depend highly on advanced IoT devices that can create a network for the benefit of travelers.

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