Photos from Travel Massive's WTM Social with Stripe — 2025 Travel Trends + Gen Z Whitepaper

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A big thanks to over 100 travel professionals who joined us in London this week at Stripe’s London office for an evening of hospitality networking and discussion.

On our panel we heard from Alka Carter-Manning, Vice President of Supply Management at TUI Musement and Olivia Palamountain, Trend Analyst at Globetrender, about the travel trends that will matter in 2025

Here’s a few key take-aways from the panel:

  • The rise in new travel channels and motivations like wellness, culinary, and sport.
  • 80% of tourists visit the same 10% of places — there’s an opportunity for Gen Z to change this.
  • Gen Z consumers will abandon the transaction if it’s not frictionless, i.e. Google Pay or Apple Wallet.
  • ⁠Want to sell your experiences? Just start locally at hotels and stay friends with the concierges.
  • Starting your career in the industry? Look for a mentor to learn from.

Thanks to James Lemon from Stripe for moderating!

👉 We also heard from Aaron Jones from CIKLUM who presented a white paper on frictionless travel for Gen Z (free download).

A warm welcome to new members, and thanks to Stripe for supporting and hosting the event.

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Ian
Founder, Travel Massive

A big thanks to over 100 members who joined us in London this week at Stripe’s London office for an evening of hospitality networking and discussion.

This was a great way to warm up for WTM London, and to reconnect with many members from around the world.

It was also fantastic to connect with chapter leaders from Bristol (Emily), Berlin (Bjorn), Montenegro (Kirsi), Amsterdam (Tobias), London (Matthew and Benoit), Sao Paulo (Polyana), and Dublin (Kevin)! We also recruited a new chapter leader for Brussels!

Also a big thank you to Becca and Joel from Global Convoy for volunteering at the registration desk and helping everyone get up to Stripe's office.

Well done Matthew and Benoit on another great event for London Travel Massive 🙌

26 days ago (edited)
Founder - Everything AI in Travel, Videreo

This was an awesome event full of high quality people from across the travel spectrum.

Always look for a Travel Massive as a side event to any of the big shows. TBH - much better networking and fun than the show itself!

Thanks to all the team!

23 days ago (edited)
Human, T2Impact Ltd

I had not been to a London TM for a while. The quality of presentation was excellent. Location was great to well done to the various team members and thanks to Stripe for hosting.

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Photos from Travel Massive's WTM Social with Stripe was posted by Ian, Benoit Collin, Matthew Gardiner in Article , London , Travel Tech , Startup , Travel Massive , Innovation . Featured on Nov 7, 2024 (26 days ago). Photos from Travel Massive's WTM Social with Stripe — 2025 Travel Trends + Gen Z Whitepaper is rated 5/5 ★ by 2 members.
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