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How might AI-powered curated personalization transform the travel industry? And how can we leverage robotics and novel concepts to reach our future consumers? 🤖🧠   Our Head of Vision Hub, Amanda Mai Khuong-Duc, joined an expert panel on "Consumer 2030" at the recent ACI EUROPE Conference in Helsinki. In an insightful discussion, she shared her thoughts on how to turn the more than 50% of travelers who aren't yet buyers into ones. ✨ 🙏 Also special thanks to Thomas Kaneko Henningsen Clara Susset Noora Westerberg Sven Zahn Philipp Ahrens Martijn Steur Finavia eurotrade Flughafen München Handels GmbH m1nd-set @Blueprint Gebr. Heinemann Ildikó Jankovich Jens Wolf Benjamin Dillmann Björn Buddenbohm 📸 Pasi Salminen   #futureconsumer #curatedpersonalization #enablingtech #ACI #travelretail

Lately, our Head of Vision Hub Amanda Mai Khuong-Duc, spoke to VASS Germany in their Podcast "Disrupting Complexity" on the topic of "Travel Retail: The Future of Airports between Innovation and Experience!" 🎧 Together with Kai-Uwe Jürgens as host, she explores the future of travel and airports and why it is a must to keep an eye on travelers and their needs.   "There are human needs, and then there are travelers' needs: Exploring, discovering. How can these needs be mapped and find satisfaction at the airport?" 💡 *The podcast is in German. If you have found a tool to translate web-based podcast files simultaneously, please comment below! 🤓 #airportinnovation #travelretail #travelerinsights

We’re heading to TFWA (Tax Free World Association) in Cannes to talk about what’s next for DutyFree and travel retail.   If you’re a startup, stakeholder, or innovator in Cannes and working in this space, we’d love to hear from you.   📆 Drop us a message. Reach out to Amanda Mai Khuong-Duc for future forecasting and vision and Darren Soh and Lennard Niemann to chat investments.

Our venture Duffle is getting a makeover. The world is coming to your phone with Duffle’s brand new app.   Big congratulations to Richy Ugwu and the whole team that made this possible.   Stay tuned for its release.

New-age Online Travel Agents: Emerging Trends Despite travel and tourism companies contributing over 10% to the global economy, startups in that industry have received a mere 1% of total funding in the last 15 years. In the landscape of Online Travel Agents (OTAs), Expedia Group, Booking.com and Trip.com have gathered immense scale advantages that are almost impossible to surmount. At GHARAGE we support and fund both OTAs and startups poised to shape the industry’s future and are noticing three main strategies employed by startups to disrupt incumbent OTAs: 💡 Creating proprietary top-of-the-funnel travel demand - think Meituan Dianping and Xiaohongshu 💡 Serving alternative segments or niche demographics, with examples including STAYFOLIO, Seek Sophie, NomadHer and Sotravel 💡 Finding innovative business models via the intersection of travel and other industries. Hopper and GoZayaan are the leading candidates here. Dive into our Medium article for an in-depth analysis of these evolving trends and what they mean for tomorrow’s travel experiences. 👉🏽 https://lnkd.in/eCWxpT9j #TravelTech #StartupFunding #Transformation 🚀🌎

How can we use design to create powerful impact and change within our industries? At our recent Spotlight, we opened conversations surrounding different approaches to design, discussing the integral role it can play in connecting with users and setting the visions for our collective futures. Flip through the carousel to see some of the highlights. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 #airbus #mutaborAI #speculativedesign

This week, we had the pleasure of hosting our GHARAGE Spotlight, exploring the importance of design in business.   We investigated different approaches to the design process, uncovering practices to use across various industries. These included how can we use empathy to better understand users and make more informed choices, how we can we use speculative design to help guide us towards a better future, and how to support non-professional designers in easily creating a consistent visual universe.   We want to give a special thank you to everyone who joined us in our office space in Hamburg, our speakers, and to our production team for making it possible. 🎤 Moderation: Amanda Mai Khuong-Duc ✏️ Event Production: Larissa Hülsmann 📷 Photography: Yunjung Chuang

Join us on July 9 for our Spotlight exploring how to unlock business impact through design-driven methods. When Steve Jobs rejoined Apple in 1997 – the year they nearly had to file for bankruptcy – he was the one who firmly believed in the power of design. The seeds he sowed remain the cornerstone of Apple's success story even after 28 years. Furthermore, over a ten-year period, design-led companies exceed the S&P by over 200%. Enjoy short sessions from our speakers Burkhard Müller, Alexandra Zenner, and Oliver Zeplin followed by a Q&A moderated by Amanda Mai Khuong-Duc. When: July 09 17:00-19:00 Doors open at 16:30 Where: GHARAGE, Shanghaiallee 9, 20457 Hamburg, 2nd Floor Click here to RVSP https://lnkd.in/gFVuGNVB

Excited to share that Amanda Mai Khuong-Duc, Head of Vision Hub, will be speaking at K5 - Future Retail in Berlin next week about "Humanized Commerce in Travel Retail". If you are in Berlin, message her for a catch-up to discuss the future of travel retail! #future #travelretail #travelecosystem

Let’s talk about inventory. Many major brands and retailers have vast amounts of slow-moving and obsolete inventory (SLOB) which accumulate to around 5% of their revenue. This creates pressing issues from logistics to high storage expenses. Nike, TJ Maxx, and Intel alone saw their inventories balloon by close to $30B within 4 years (2019-2023) due to changing consumer demands and supply chain backlogs. Read our thoughts on Medium to discover how are companies liquidating this sudden build-up of inventory: https://bit.ly/3UQmDcP If you're a startup working in this space, get in touch with Kianchong Lim or Darren Soh.