Member profile
Dr. Zara Persaud
Senior Research Fellows
Biography
Tourist behaviour time-series modelling, global visitor forecasting and tourism recommendation systems.
Research areas
Related projects
Institute research topics aligned with the broad areas identified in this biography; these are not confirmed personal project assignments.
Sustainable Island Tourism AI
- Demand forecasting & revenue management
- Fuse flights, cruise schedules, storms and search trends for island-level forecasts and dynamic pricing; open API for CHTA.
- Multilingual AI island concierge
- Conversational guide in EN/ZH/ES/FR/NL that promotes local dive shops, eateries and heritage experiences.
- Beach carrying-capacity monitoring
- Anonymous crowd sensing at beaches and cruise ports with real-time rerouting to protect reefs.
- Blue Tourism coral-reef valuation
- Satellite reef-health detection linked to tourism value, supporting blue-carbon and climate-fund applications.
- Cruise shore-excursion orchestration
- Coordinate landings, transfers and bookings so spending flows to local communities.
- Low-carbon resort operations
- AI control of HVAC, desalination and solar-storage to cut energy and water use for ESG certification.
- Hurricane resilience & recovery
- Asset damage simulation, recovery forecasting and automated insurance claim packages.
- Caribbean cultural IP & marketing engine
- Compliant, multilingual destination content tailored to North American, European and Asian markets.