business Essential news, comment and analysis Gloria Guevara: ‘In


two or three years, your face could be your passport and boarding pass’


Guevara advocates action to avoid aviation gridlock


BIOMETRIC I.D. IS SET TO TRANSFORM TRAVEL. IAN TAYLOR REPORTS


Governments and industry must act to facilitate “seamless travel” and prevent aviation gridlock, the head of the World Travel & Tourism Council has warned.


WTTC president and chief


executive Gloria Guevara said: “In two or three years, your face could be your passport and boarding pass. That is what we want to achieve.” Guevara noted the industry handled four billion air passengers globally last year, but airline


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association Iata forecasts numbers will double by 2037. She told the International


Travel Crisis Management Summit (ITCMS) in London: “Are we going to grow the number of airports 100%? I don’t think so.” Guevara said industry and


governments must act “if we are to move from processing 10 million passengers a day at airports to 22 million a day”. She told the summit: “In


Washington last week we announced the first round-trip biometric pilot study, Dallas to London, involving two airlines, two airports, multiple hotels, a cruise line and car rental sharing information. We will announce a second pilot soon. We want to increase security while creating a seamless experience. I don’t want to spend more time in lines.” US Customs and Border


Protection has agreed to work with the WTTC on the pilot studies for its Seamless Traveller Journey project along with American Airlines, Dallas Fort Worth airport,


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