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Author: Future Agenda | https://www.futureagenda.org
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Our foresight programmes generate insights and views of the future, that can be used to provoke discussion, response, thought and innovation.
There are two main challenges ahead for the development of a robust travel and tourism industry: how to grow further to deliver jobs, exports, economic growth and development, and in doing so, how to manage this sustainably.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/two-main-challenges/
The inequality dichotomy in developing countries continues to expand, beyond just wealth and opportunity: Gender, race and skills gaps all increase and, even as some of the poorest see improvements, the wealthy pull further away.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/inequality-dilemma/
An increase in trust between employees and employers builds greater alignment and enables democratisation of the workplace, more flexible ways of working and more effective organisations.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/two-way-trust-2/
For some in the knowledge economy the potential for continuous travel, blended with part-time work, is focused on ‘wi-fi hopping’for regular access to high-speed connectivity – no matter where in the world they are.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/wi-fi-global-nomads/
The growth of the nomadic global elite citizenship accelerates the concentration of the high-skill / high-reward opportunities within a select group of globally-connected citizens, who move ahead of the urban pack.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/skill-concentrations-2/
One of the reasons for the boom in living standards in the C20th was because of the long boom in manufacturing, the dominant economic trend for much of the century. Productivity growth tends to fall as services become dominant.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/manufacturing-vs-services/
Greater awareness of water access, scarcity and control, alongside visibility on the true value of water, all drive wider recognition of the challenge. But, in some regions, the absence of a major crisis delays political and social action.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/water-as-an-issue/
Access to water supplies will play an increasingly important role in violent regional conflict, with water assets becoming prime targets, prized spoils and even weapons in their own right.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/water-wars/
New water technologies will deliver water more efficiently to the haves, easing shortages, but will remain unavailable to the have-nots – so driving visible new inequalities based explicitly on access to water.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/water-water-everywhere/
Data analytics can help build understanding on how to use the water cycle to respond to the challenges of climate change. It can also lead to increased scrutiny of water utilities and a better understanding of cost.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/data-analytics/
Currently half of the world’s cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants are situated in areas experiencing water scarcity. To date neither governments nor businesses have done enough to prepare for this.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/readiness-for-water-scarcity/
Recognising that there is no perfect transport solution, policy makers increasingly bet on longer term options with built-in adaptability for changing technologies and infrastructure use.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/in-built-flexibility/
