Released in the same week that International Airlines Group announces its latest results and the global travel community convened for World Travel Market London, a new report from Raven has set out a bold vision for the future of aviation.

New research reveals key trends shaping hotel technology investment, satisfaction, and strategy, and a clear shift toward Best-in-Class integrated systems over All-in-One platforms.

Emirates has invested AED 85 million to install more than 200 biometrics-enabled cameras across Terminal 3, Dubai International (DXB) – allowing more customers to pass through Check-In, Immigration, Boarding Gates, Lounges and board the aircraft, simply by facial recognition, with a quick and easy registration on Emirates app. Eliminating the need to take out a passport and boarding pass at various points in the airport, the new biometrics initiative is a collaboration between Emirates and the General Directorate of Identity and Foreigner Affairs Dubai (GDRFAD), that reduces processing time significantly for all registered customers. The powerful cameras can recognise the biometric profile of a customer from one metre away, allowing customers to walk swiftly through areas where they used to have to pause and show documents.

The World Sustainable Travel & Hospitality Awards (WSTHA) and Tourism Economics have released the inaugural Global Destination Resilience Index 2025—a landmark study designed to measure how well destinations are prepared to balance growth with sustainability in an era of rapid global travel expansion.

VOX Group unveils VOX AURA at WTM 2025: AI-Powered Multilingual Guiding That Speaks Your Language. Real-time multilingual audio translations to VOX radio devices - no phones, no apps, and over 50 languages.

Tazizi, a Dubai-born and based food technology startup, has officially launched its innovative workplace dining solution, transforming how employees access healthy, affordable meals at work. Built around the idea that nutritious food should be convenient and accessible, Tazizi provides offices with smart, automated fridges stocked daily with chef-crafted, wholesome meals. Each meal is prepared fresh every morning in Tazizi’s kitchen and restocked across office locations throughout Dubai, ensuring employees always have ready-to-enjoy options on hand, 24/7. Think protein overnight oats, nourishing bowls and salads, fresh wraps and sandwiches, and more, all of which are macro-tracked and calorie counted, and ready to be enjoyed without a delivery fee or wait time.