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Meet Gaudí in person. Time travel to Tarragona’s past. Walk through a picture made by you. Discover the ins and outs of a city as if you were there… but without leaving your sofa. Digital experiences are changing the way we travel and understand the world. It is very straightforward for the youngest travellers: enjoying these experiences has become one of their main reasons for travelling.
The dizzying development of the internet and the birth and empowerment of the so-called Generation Z (those born between 1995 and 2015, according to Forbes) means we are now facing a new tourism revolution: the ability to offer digital experiences before, during and after a trip. 

Fitur turns 40 and this is not to be missed. But we all know (from previous experience) that you have to do your homework before going to Fitur and that you need to memorise a route map to avoid ending up aimlessly ambling from one pavilion to the next. 

APIs in the tourism sector, or as they are commonly known: Travel APIs, have radically changed the way we understand the tourism industry today. No. We are not exaggerating. They are behind all the buying and selling processes in the sector, and the larger the tourism company, the more it depends on them to be able to continue increasing their level of purchase and/or sale of products.

The future of today’s tourism sector rests on the capacity of companies and professionals in the sector to understand and anticipate travellers’ needs. It is a very complicated challenge, no doubt about it, but fortunately there are many tools to smooth the way – tools that were inconceivable just a few years ago.

After collecting the traditional New Year grapes and buying bags of favours for all the team members, TravelgateX activates the bye-bye-2019 mode, ready to release the 2020 agenda with more enthusiasm, desire and projects than ever. In what will be the “year of the golden rat” or “the year of great luck” according to the Chinese calendar, there will be lots of challenges, goals and events that will mark a before and after for our company.
Starting a new year means getting a move on, filling up on positive energy and growing. This is exactly what we will do during the coming twelve months: grow and expand. To do so, we will rely on our philosophy of always offering the best (as far as tourism connectivity is concerned) and the infallible equation of “buying improvement to sell better“. 

We all agree that without internet it would be impossible to imagine a tourism industry like the present one. With the emergence of the network of networks and new technologies, the work tourist agents do has been made so much simpler, but it has also been perfected, and business niches hitherto unthinkable have appeared.
But this ‘magic’ is not just due to the existence of the internet. There is a secret ingredient, and that ingredient is what really makes this new medium a pillar of the tourism industry. We are talking about digital connections (also known as integrations). They make all the information highways work perfectly, without sinkholes, without jams, without interruptions.