Solve air problems with tech and commercial will follow, urges Trip’s Xing Xiong
“Use tech to solve the problems and commercial will follow”. That was the central message delivered by Xing Xiong, COO of Trip.com Group, to the more than 170 partners gathered at the group’s Airline Global Conference in Shanghai last week.
Calling himself a technologist at heart, Xiong said that despite the industry back to resuming the high growth it enjoyed pre-Covid, it was still facing many challenges and that “it is surprising to see why there are still so many problems out there, despite so many pioneers working on them for so long”.
Xing Xiong: “Commercial shouldn’t be a blocker to value creation.”
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