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Airport Show 2025 to reflect the pace of technological progress at airports

- February 05, 2025 , by Maagulf

Dubai: When the US-based IBM Center for the Business of Government wrote in a
study in March 2000 that “new strategies, new ideas, and new technologies were
necessary for airports” for broadening economy, there were few takers even in the

world’s biggest countries which a year earlier had handled over 8.3 million flights and

Twenty-five years later, a survey by Amadeus, the world’s leading provider of travel
technology, revealed 56 percent of airport leaders are making technology investments
for ‘enhancing’ customer experience and 52 percent for ‘improving’ operational
efficiency.