Tourism Dubai announced on Monday that in order to boost tourism it would launch a business-to-business platform within two years.
The platform is “open, real-time, and secure,” the government-controlled tourism organization added.
The B2B platform will be based on blockchain technology, a process which is defined as a digital ledger. It enables users to process changes in a digital document simultaneously through a continues list of records, the blocks which are connected through cryptography.
Helal Saeed Almarri, director general of Dubai Tourism, said they aim at global leaders in tourism innovation, adding that travel today “is undergoing one of the most emphatic sectoral transformations due to the radical pace of technological disruption across every aspect of the consumer journey.”
This project is part of the Dubai government’s “10X” masterplan which aims to put the Gulf Arab sheikhdom 10 years ahead of all governments globally within two years.
The travel and hospitality sector contributes over nine per cent to the Dubai economy.
Dubai attracted a total of 15.79 million international overnight visitors in 2017, posting a 6.2 per cent increase compared to the five per cent growth in 2016, according to Dubai Tourism data released earlier in the month.
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