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Murmuration partners with Green Evolution, leveraging location intelligence for sustainable development in Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus, focusing on tourism, urbanization, and smart cities.

The travel bug might just bite you back this year as a relatively new phenomenon threatens holiday plans: overtourism.

Last year, Phuket, Thailand, was the most overcrowded tourist destination. For each of the island's 416,000 inhabitants, 118 vacationers showed up, according to a study by MoneyTransfers.com.

For more than 40 years, Serco’s solutions and services in the space sector have enabled environmental insights, and the Urban Twin Solution is the latest tool to further strengthen the company’s growing space sector in the region, following the launch of its graduate space programme and space sector over the previous two years.

The launch of our Urban Twin Solution is an exciting moment for us at Serco. With 50% of essential climate variables only measurable from space, we must look to the invisible infrastructure of the skies in the fight against climate change.

The collaboration with Murmuration and Michelin Mobility Intelligence brings together a unique blend of expertise in technology and mobility data analysis. This synergy is crucial for the Urban Twin Solution, as it combines spatial environmental data with mobility insights, providing a multi-dimensional perspective on environmental management.

Launched with technology partner Murmuration and mobility data partner Michelin Mobility Intelligence, the holistic Urban Twin monitoring service will provide Serco clients with a complete 360-degree environmental overview, helping them to use the latest AI data-driven insights and analytics to fight climate change at a building, development, project, city or giga city level.

Lakshadweep can hardly afford the ill fate of Maya Bay in Thailand, made famous by the Leonardo DiCaprio film 'The Beach', or of Ladakh, made famous by the Hindi film 'Three Idiots'.

The competition attracted more than 2,000 entrants from 120 countries worldwide. The most submissions were from Europe, the Americas and Africa, followed by Asia and the Pacific and the Middle East. From these, an expert jury selected 30 finalists and then 15 winners.

TSDI (Tourism Sustainable Development Index) is a sustainable tourism index developed by Murmuration and based on Earth observation space data and socio-economic data. TSDI reflects the correlation between the economic development of tourism and its environmental impact. It is inspired by Professor Jason Hickel’s Sustainable Development Index (SDI), which aims to evolve the HDI (Human […]