It’s tempting to look back on 2015 for clues of what lies ahead for the travel industry in 2016, and there is some value in that approach. Certainly technology will continue to impact how people purchase and experience travel; distribution channels will continue to evolve and the industry as a whole will continue to grow. But there’s a limit to what clues from the prior year can tell us and also a point at which trying to read tea leaves from the past amounts to a distraction more than anything else.
