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We recently released our annual travel industry trends forecast, Skift Megatrends 2025. Because of the havoc that the pandemic triggered, we wrote Travel Megatrends 2025 as a vision of how travel industry dynamics could play out five years from now. You can read about each of the trends on Skift, or download a copy here. Superapps, social media, and cryptocurrencies collided in 2025, with established travel technology players and a new wave of payment service integrators nearly stripping out the last remnants of friction for many consumers. The superapp concept spread well beyond Asia. Large...

Share Photo Credit: Gerd Altmann/Pixabay The rise of Covid has seen a parallel rise in the use of contactless payments as people have tried to avoid spreading the virus further. New research finds that the crisis has accelerated the move away from cash by four years.    According to Amadeus, 84 per cent of respondents to a survey of 5,000 adults who have travelled since the Covid-19 outbreak began said they now pay with non-cash methods like contactless or mobile payments when travelling. And 14 per cent of travellers said that when contactless payment options were not avail...