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Air New Zealand’s Tech-Savvy CEO on AI and the Limits of the Machine
An AI-powered airline is a fine ambition – but it won't touch the fuel price, the grounded engines, or the weak Kiwi dollar doing the real damage. Ravishankar's edge is that he seems to know it.
Grab Says Its Travel Strategy Isn’t About Hotels or Flights, It’s About Knowing What You’ll Need Next
Grab says it isn't competing with the region’s travel platforms. But what it is building may be more disruptive than direct competition.
AI Isn’t Ignoring Airlines. It Just Can’t Read Their Fares.
Adobe says AI referrals are sending travel sites more engaged visitors. But the next advantage may belong to brands whose pages are easiest for machines to read.
Why Chesky Is Building His AI Lab Outside Airbnb
The smartest read of Chesky’s AI lab is that he learned the exact lesson of Meta’s metaverse: if you’re going to make a bet the market will punish, don’t make it where the market can see it.
Oracle Bakes AI Into Opera Cloud Hotel Operations
Oracle is treating AI as a standard feature of hotel operations software, not a premium product. That raises the stakes for property management rivals trying to sell similar tools as add-ons.
Marriott Begins Rollout of AI Trip Planner on Site and App
Even as Marriott builds a walled garden, it is buying real estate in everyone else's. That hedging action is understandable given that no travel company is yet sure where travelers will actually start their searches.
Amadeus’ New AI Tools Are Part of a Bigger Hotel Booking Plan — Exclusive
Amadeus will publicly introduce two hotel AI tools at HITEC, but its bigger play is infrastructure. As AI agents move closer to travel booking, the GDS wants to help define how hotels are found, priced, changed, and paid for.
RealTime Reservation Acquires STAY to Unify Hotel Ancillary Revenue Tech — Exclusive
Hotels have chased non-room revenue for years without consolidating the fragmented tech underneath. This acquisition puts one shopping cart and one shared data foundation ahead of any new feature.
IHG Spent 8 Years Rebuilding Its Hotel Systems. Now It Says the Payoff Is Starting.
IHG CEO Elie Maalouf is telling franchisees that eight years of tech investment has begun to expand their margins. It's an open question whether this early tech advantage will woo more hotel owners, boosting the growth rate of IHG's system.