Interview with Carlos Álvarez, CTO of Despegar

Despegar is reorganized for tourism of the new normal, with a focus on sanitary measures and online sales

One of the first Argentine unicorns, was worth as much as US$2.200 billion.The onslaught of Covid-19 with the stoppage of travels and tourism caused it to drop to US$420 million in March 2020. Today it resists, restructures itself based on an internal reorganization and a 35% cut in expenses, as it prepares for the new normal in the industry with an even greater focus on technologies and data analytics

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