H.E. François Hollande (Former President of France)

– The latest development of blockchain and its capacity to build tourism is really important. We need new horrizons opened by technologies like blockchain and crypto currencies

– More accurate data created by blockchain and crypto currency payment technologies will help governments and private sectors to shape their investment plans and services on tourism effectively.

– Crypto currencies make us hoped to exchange easily with lower fees, without restrictions and complexity of procedures on exchanging.

– Crypto currencies will allow us to create a payment system that secure more than anything we are currently using. I think this system will evolve worldwide.

– It’s all governments and head of states’ responsibility to make travel easier to access for everyone. They need to develop all the conditions to facilitate not only subjects such as health, transportation and security but also new technologies like blockchain and crypto currencies. Because these technologies can give us some elements that allow us lower fees and more security to further support movement of travel.

Kaiser Naseem (International Development Banker)

– Potential in terms of being able to leverage and improve every service and financial products are delivered by blockchain. Based on that blockchain the concept of decentralized finance is the one I think is the most exciting.

DR. Michael Gebert (Chairman of European Blockchain Association)

– We need to understand blockchain in order to use it. If you compare blockchain to do use of money, nobody understands how money is working at the moment. You use it for granted and you rely on trust. So the common issue in between blockchain and money is trust and i think if you go back to that level of experience, the trust is needed to do thing interact successfully ended or simulated.

Importance of tourism industry from block chain side is, tourism means lots of data and If data is in place the trust is in place. If the trust is settled then it is ground from there to build up relation and businesses.

José Ramón Bauzá (Member of European Parliament)

– As EU with its all members we should take our competitive position on blockchain. Blockchain is an opportunity. If you don’t see it you loose your time. EU and its all members should take their competitive place on blockchain and crypto currencies against other regions. The leader of EU should be advised well on this developments.

– Blockchain is related with almost everything that we see everyday about tourism. Can you imagine that when we’re on a flight it can happen to us to loose our luggage… Thanks to blockchain, it can be avoided. Blockchain can help us in every single chain of tourism industry.

Ismail Ertug (Member of European Parliament)

– As Eu we’re economically the strongest region. But sometimes we loose speed and loose some competition against other regions. My wish is to set the golden standard for regulations on these new technologies should be coming and driven by EU.

There is a competition but in the end we are only one planet. We have to work together with all other regions to make our life better in the future.

Haitham Mattar(“Managing Director MEA & South West Asia IHG Hotels & Resorts)

– There is no hotel operator is really meeting speed of expectations of any owner, colleague or guest is looking for. We’re using artificial intelligence for our reservations. It allows our guests to make bookings and have confirmations faster.

– I dream about hotels without receptionists. The AI helps self-check-in and save guest’s time. In today’s world even 5 minutes waiting time in a line is very long time. We use technology to follow and apply new developments in our business.

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