The future of travel runs on
Digital Travel Credentials
Passengers scan their passport once and receive a reusable, cryptographically verified digital identity on their phone. Every downstream touchpoint (airline, airport, lounge, hotel, car rental) is verified instantly, and travelers cross borders almost without noticing through pre-authorized contactless corridors. The same platform issues credentials for eVisas and Electronic Travel Authorization.
Industry briefing
What digital travel will feel like
Three forces are converging on air travel at once.
Rising passenger volume
More travelers moving through the same airports and borders, straining every manual checkpoint.
AI-generated fraud
Deepfakes and synthetic documents that perception-based checks were never built to catch.
Digitally native travelers
Passengers who already expect seamless, phone-first experiences everywhere else they go.
In deployment
The most proven DTC track record
in the market
Other providers have announced DTC capabilities. Indicio has deployed them at national scale, across the full travel ribbon.
National-scale deployment
First production DTC-1 and DTC-2 for national border management
Selected by a national government for the world’s first production deployment of both DTC-1 and DTC-2 credentials, covering border control, national citizen ID, and tourism. Aligned with current ICAO specifications, and in final implementation with scope already expanding beyond the original mandate.
National scale · DTC-1 + DTC-2 · Border + citizen ID + tourism · Production
Pioneer deployment · 2023
World’s first DTC for border crossing, in Aruba
Built with SITA and the Government of Aruba. Passengers derived a DTC from their passport, received travel pre-authorization, and crossed the border in seconds by looking at a camera. The first sovereign government to accept a DTC.
SITA · Government of Aruba · AHOP app · ICAO DTC-1 · PhocusWire
Multi-credential first · 2024
First combined DTC and IATA One ID for international flights
With SITA, Aruba, and Delta Air Lines. Travelers used a DTC for travel authorization and border crossing, and IATA One ID for check-in, bag drop, and boarding at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson. Two credential types issued at once for one seamless workflow. Plane to beach in 30 minutes.
Delta Air Lines trial · SITA · IATA One ID · ATL → Aruba
EU large-scale pilot
APTITUDE: DTC-2 within the EUDI framework
Participating in the APTITUDE Large Scale Pilot to implement a DTC-2 credential inside the European Digital Identity framework. This positions Indicio for interoperability with the EU’s 450-million-user identity ecosystem as it comes online.
APTITUDE consortium · EUDI Wallet · eIDAS 2.0 · DTC-2 · European Commission
Watch the trial
Atlanta to Aruba, one seamless journey
Travelers flew from Atlanta to Aruba using a DTC for border authorization and IATA One ID for check-in, bag drop, and boarding, reaching the beach within 30 minutes of landing. Built by Indicio with SITA, Delta Air Lines, and the Government of Aruba.
The travel ribbon
One credential. Every touchpoint.
A Digital Travel Credential works across the whole journey. Scan your passport once, then present it at every step from planning to destination.
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Before travel
Scan your passport to create the DTC, set preferences, and book flights, hotel, and car with verified identity. Border pre-authorization is granted before you leave home.
At the airport
Check in and drop bags with no document queue, clear security biometrically, access lounges and duty-free, and board by NFC, BLE, or QR.
After arrival
Cross the border in seconds with a biometric match, then check into the hotel, collect the car, and access destination services from the same credential.
The return
The DTC doesn’t expire with the trip. It stays in the wallet for the next journey, removing onboarding friction for repeat travelers.
Why Indicio for travel
What no other provider delivers
Standards
Both ICAO DTC types, one platform
DTC Type 1 (a derived credential for travel authorization) and DTC Type 2 (a cryptographic replica of the passport chip for border crossing) each do a different job. Proven issues and verifies both from a single platform, so you aren’t stitching together separate systems.
Governance
Multi-credential governance
Travelers never need to know which credential a touchpoint wants. Proven’s governance layer picks the right format for each verifier automatically: DTC for the border, IATA One ID for the airline, mdoc for the hotel, each presented seamlessly.
Biometrics
Bring your own biometrics
Authenticated biometrics are bound to the credential on the traveler’s device. Border agencies and airlines verify the traveler biometrically without storing biometric data, so there’s no central database, less privacy-compliance burden, and a structural defense against deepfakes.
Document processing
Vendor-agnostic by design
Proven works with your existing document and biometric providers, or supplies its own. Passport OCR, MRZ extraction, NFC chip reading, ICAO PKD validation, and liveness detection are all modular and swappable without disrupting the credential layer.
Proven AI for Digital Travel
AI agents that verify digital passports
Travelers prove their identity to AI agents, chatbots, and copilots with a Digital Travel Credential, one tap, no manual data entry. Trust runs both ways: the agent verifies the traveler is real, and the traveler verifies the agent belongs to the real airline, stopping phishing and spoofed agents before any data moves.
Explore Proven AI →Next step
Get your DTC architecture outline
Whether you’re planning a pilot or scaling nationally, bring your use case (airline, airport, border agency, destination hotel) and we’ll map the fastest path to deployment.
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