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“ Connectivity is an essential part of my journey,” he says.“ We’ re talking about travel agencies and FinTech applications because I’ m managing my bank accounts and financial services abroad.”

Travel platforms are already bundling connectivity into their offerings.“ Some agencies say,‘ If you book a hotel worth more than a thousand dollars, we’ ll give you 10GB of data for free in your destination country,’” Tarek notes.

He warns operators that resisting the convergence threatens their revenues.“ If they don’ t put a clear strategy in place to deal with it, – not resist it, – their revenues are in big threat,” he cautions.

30 January 2026