How Digital Travel Credentials (DTCs) Transform Travel

What’s it like to use a digital travel credentials?

Say goodbye to constantly pulling out your passport. Digital Travel Credentials (DTCs) are securely stored on a citizen’s device, making travel more convenient—from booking to border control.

Watch the video to explore a typical travel day and discover how DTCs streamline the experience for both citizens and government authorities.

The Digital Travel Credentials (DTCs) Details

Security and convenience are just the beginning—Digital Travel Credentials (DTCs) offer much more. With multiple formats and a range of powerful capabilities, DTCs are shaping the future of travel.

Read this white paper to gain insights into how DTCs work, along with detailed information on:

  • DTC types, including eMRTD bound, eMRTD-PC bound and PC bound
  • What DTCs can do and where they’ll be useful to citizens and governments
  • The challenges to adoption and how to overcome them
  • The future of travel with DTCs

Watch the video to explore a typical travel day and discover how DTCs streamline the experience for both citizens and government authorities.

Travel Credential Comparison

What’s the Digital Travel Credentials (DTCs) difference?

Take a side-by-side look at the features and benefits of DTCs, ePassports and passports in this infographic.

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Digital travel credentials (DTC), in the near future, will exist alongside ePassports to transform the passenger’s journey from home all the way to their destination. The creation of the DTC will allow sharing of personal travel data in advance of the journey, enabling better security checks and the use of biometrics to support seamless flow of passengers through airports, ports and other travel hubs. The DTC will be fully interoperable under the standards set out by ICAO and deliver security level equivalent or better than the ePassport.

TOPPAN Security provides software that enables any issuing authority to prepare, issue, manage, and verify Digital Travel Credentials (DTC).Our proven mobile technology ensures all data is fully encrypted using any ICAO-compliant PKI system and securely delivered to the individual—without compromising central record sources or user privacy.

This technology offers:

    • Full customization of the user experience
    • Delivery into any eWallet, either native or issuer-specific
    • Support for any of the three DTC types
    • Digital onboarding
    • Multiple credentials in a single wallet, e.g., children or other family members

The specifications for DTCs are based on ICAO Doc 9303. The standard defines three DTC types, each comprising two parts: a physical component and a virtual component.

Join Our Digital Travel Credentials (DTC) Pilot Program

Every journey needs a knowledgeable guide. That’s why TOPPAN Security is here, to help you confidently navigate Digital Travel Credentials (DTC).

Learn how DTC can integrate smoothly with your systems and how to implement it successfully.

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