Harry Handeagleadded a comment 8 years ago
Over the next decade, the world’s population
will swell by more than a billion people, and
Amadeus predicts that as a result, the global
travel market will grow 5.4% per year, outpacing
global GDP growth by 2% annually. China, with
its emerging middle class, will soon surpass the
US as the largest outbound travel market in the
world, and the world’s most populous nation
will become the biggest domestic travel market
as well within a few more years.The burgeoning
global population will be mobile in more ways
than one. The GSMA’s Mobile Economy 2014
report predicts that there will be 9.2 billion active
mobile connections by 2020, spread across 4.3
billion unique subscribers. Ubiquitous, ‘hyper’
connectivity will be the norm