Cybersecurity Challenges Facing the EMEA Travel and Tourism Industry

This report outlines rising cyber risks to the travel and tourism industry in EMEA: high-value PII exposure, AI-enabled social engineering and phishing, reservation hijacks, double‑extortion ransomware hitting property management systems, supply-chain weaknesses among smaller vendors, and geopolitically motivated disruption such as GNSS jamming and large-scale DDoS. It emphasizes the high financial impact of breaches, the weaponization of AI by attackers, and the need to shift from perimeter-focused defenses to human and operational resilience.