The future of travel could bring robot butlers, personalised hotel packages and even cheaper flights.
With more systems relying on artificial intelligence and machines, they may end up replacing humans and become an integral part of the travel industry.
It could also hit the aviation industry with pilotless planes being the latest new concept.
However, are they really that safe?
Pilot-free planes could be in the air as soon as 2025, according to a new report by investment bank UBS.
The planes could not only save the industry £27 billion a year but could actually be safer, rather than more dangerous as many planes already rely on computers to do a large amount of the work.
The report found that up to 80 per cent of accidents actually occur due to human error.
It is also good news for the aviation industry that is currently suffering from a pilot shortage, with 600,000 new captains needed by 2035 as more planes take to the sky.
Yet this doesn’t translate to travellers wanting to use them, as just 17 percent of 8,000 people surveyed by UBS would actually want to fly in one.
Half of those surveyed even admitted they wouldn’t buy a pilotless plane ticket even if it was cheaper.
Whilst removing pilots could make airfares cheaper (by up to 11 per cent), the idea of flying in a plane without humans can make for an unnerving prospect.
This isn’t helped by the recent driverless cars being tested, which have resulted in some dangerous crashes and incidents when human nature and thought process would have been needed.
An Air France flight crashed in 2009, killing all 228 passengers onboard when the automated system failed and the preceding pilot interaction failed to right the plane’s course.
It also raises concerns over the systems being able to be overridden by humans in case of problems or cyber hacking, as well as whether it could handle emergency landings and situations.
Steve Landells, flight safety specialist for the British Airline Pilots Association, said: “We have concerns that in the excitement of this futuristic idea, some may be forgetting the reality of pilotless air travel.
“Automation in the cockpit is not a new thing – it already supports operations. However, every single day pilots have to intervene when the automatics don’t do what they’re supposed to.
“While moving pilots to a control tower on the ground might eventually save airlines money, there would need to be huge investment to make this possible, and even more to make it safe.”
It’s not the only exciting prospect for future travel.
Airlines could even pay passengers to fly with them one day.
