Hyatt’s AI Captures Customers Sooner, Improving Sales and Productivity
Photo Credit: Hyatt President & CEO Mark Hoplamazian speaking at IHIF EMEA in Berlin. IHIF EMEA 2026, / Simon Callaghan Photography.
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Hyatt is using artificial intelligence to get closer to trip discovery, where customer intent, loyalty, and direct booking economics increasingly overlap.
Hyatt is trying to influence the trip before a traveler chooses a destination, its president and CEO Mark Hoplamazian has signaled.
Speaking at IHIF in Berlin on Monday, Hoplamazian described a search experience built around traveler intent rather than the standard combination of city, date, and room type.
“More than a year ago, [...] we changed the interface of Hyatt.com to be a generative AI interface, so instead of searching by city, date and room type, you were expressing an intent,” he said.
For hotel groups, capturing intent early on in a traveler’s online booking journey allows the companies to convert a woul