Empowering Travellers in a Post-covid World
summary
Proof of concept of Ready Travel at Cathay Pacific HQ deploys kiosks plus a mobile app that let users buy or withdraw 30+ currencies 24/7 from a Hong Kong dollar account with one-touch pickup, using bank integrations via Jetco apix or direct bank APIs and OCR scraping where APIs are missing. Backend uses ML demand forecasting to enable peer-to-peer currency swapping (avoiding FX inventory risk) and a client SDK for secure in-app account onboarding; cites 50% online ticketing and 66% preferring contactless.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:03What is Packetist
- 3:06Travel is over
- 4:00Postcovid landscape
- 5:59Price sensitivity
- 8:59Cocreation
- 10:21Ready Travel
- 11:10Open API
- 12:42Infrastructure Diagram
- 18:15Partner Ecosystems
- 18:58Recap
- 20:43Questions
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