The tourism and travel sector have seen a significant uptick across the world ever since the end of 2020, once the pandemic lockdown restrictions began to be eased. However, this change has also resulted in a surge of bot attacks on industries in these sectors and those associated with them. In fact, data from CDNetworks’ Security Platform 2022 shows that 40% of the traffic to web applications and APIs were made by bots. These bot attacks are much more than a distraction for businesses in the travel and tourism sector. They can cause direct harm to your systems, network and infrastructure and affect your business in a number of hidden ways as well.
Here are the key challenges that bots pose to online travel businesses:
- Ticket Scalping
- Seat Spinning
- Price and Data Scraping
- Account Takeover to Compromise Reward Programs
- Overloading of Servers
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