Someone copied down my docs seven times on one trip. While India bans hotel photocopies for 1.4 billion citizens, and Lufthansa and Amadeus test EUDI Wallets.
I counted: passport at check-in, bag drop, boarding. Driver’s license at car rental. Passport again at the hotel. Plus a paper form they photocopied. Facial recognition at airports, digital wallets on our phones, and resort staff still disappearing with your ID card.
The EU Digital Identity Regulation changes this. Wallets mandatory by 2026, acceptance by transport and banking by 2027.
But here’s what I learned at the APTITUDE kickoff in Paris this October: EUDI solves verification. It doesn’t solve coordination. I’m now in WP4 (ticketing & check-in), working with academic institutions, technical providers and relying parties across Europe: currently in stock-taking phase, mapping requirements and use cases. Representing Camino Network in the room where standards get defined.
Tour operators collect documents and forward them through supply chains. With EUDI, each supplier verifies directly, finally. But who coordinates which supplier can request what? How does the rental company know it’s legitimately part of your booking? EUDI provides identity primitives. Travel needs a coordination layer. That’s what we’re building.
The article covers:
→ Privacy-preserving credentials scoped to a specific journey
→ Booking state management on-chain
→ Why the same infrastructure serving travelers serves AI agents
To suppliers and tour operators: 2027 compliance is coming. Do you shape implementation or inherit it?
To policymakers: travel is where digital identity meets messy reality. Edge cases, cross-border coordination, multi-party flows. I’m bringing a solution and industry partners to the table.
To technical teams: want the architectural details? There’s still room in APTITUDE for companies that want to define standards, not just adopt them.
Read the article. Then reach out.