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The travel industry is undergoing a seismic shift, and OTAs must adapt to survive and thrive. As we navigate the complexities of 2024, a clear understanding of these 11 trends is paramount. From the rise of AI-powered personalization to...
I’ve discussed the ideal Travel AI Service should feel like a personal extension of myself and I would like to visualize what a highly automated, and eventually completely autonomous, Travel AI-powered booking might look like. I believe everything I...
Travel is no exception. I demand solutions to travel problems I didn’t even know existed, before I even realized they’re problems. Mind-Reading Travel AI In the context of travel, it dawned on me that what I truly desire is...
I propose that a new generation of travelers, born natively into natural language travel searching, will embrace natural language consumer-initiated travel searches (note the word consumer-initiated).
AI does have consumer-facing use cases, but these are nowhere near the hype surrounding its impact on consumer-initiated travel products and services.
I believe the US travel industry (companies, media, prognosticators) is currently spending too much mental energy, attention, opportunity cost and focus on the inbound Chinese traveler market while overlooking opportunities from other lucrative source markets. Fixating on ‘the Pre-pandemic...
Every aspect of the travel industry benefits from shorter tourism visa processing times --- hotels, guides, tourism boards, airlines, transportation companies, attractions, restaurants, etc. I am speechless (and that’s hard for somebody as opiniated as me) to the point...
Larger travel companies have and will continue to dominate the initial wave of large language model AI benefits. Where does that leave (comparatively smaller) travel startups
While it can be challenging to differentiate travel startups & travel apps from a customer viewpoint (the most important of viewpoints at the end of the day since they are paying all the bills so say), it's an essential...
As a traveler or even as somebody from the travel industry, have you ever struggled to differentiate between two different travel app offerings? Perhaps you've found yourself comparing two travel apps, or two different travel software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers (expense...
