How I imagine travelling in 2033

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In this episode of his CEO diary, Christoph Standl takes us on a thought experiment: a business trip to Belgium in the year 2033. Today that would mean airport, security check, waiting, rental car – and a lot of lost time. In 2033, after a normal working day in Tyrol, he gets into an autonomous electric car in the evening, works for another hour or two while his personal AI prepares the appointments and summarises the customer information, then goes to sleep and wakes up in Belgium the next morning. For tourism, this is exactly where it gets interesting: he may no longer need a classic overnight hotel stay, but he still needs a hotel – to shower, have breakfast, work and charge the vehicle. A "morning pass" instead of an overnight stay, day rooms, workspaces for business travellers, charging with electricity from the hotel's own photovoltaics – new technologies are not only a threat to existing businesses but a source of entirely new business models. And the car turns from a means of transport into a mobile space for work and rest, so that several customers in a region can be visited in one day. For Tourismus Interaktiv and Tourismus.one this means asking today how customers and their guests will travel in the future, which needs will arise, and what role infopoints, apps and digital platforms will play. Nobody knows whether 2033 will look exactly like this – but you can prepare for it. Big changes often begin with small daily steps.