How Social Media Is Shaping Travel Planning and Booking
Social media platforms are the most influential source of travel inspiration, surpassing official travel websites, review platforms, and traditional media.
AI in Travel
Skift’s own Ask Skift AI deep search tool gives readers extensive insight into the business of travel by training artificial intelligence on the complete archives of Skift, Skift Research, Airline Weekly, Skift Meetings, Daily Lodging Report, and Skift Live events.
Amazon Alexa’s AI Upgrade: Book Uber Rides and Plan Travel
Like her counterpart at Apple, the well-known voicebot Alexa is getting a total transformation with generative AI.
AI’s Risk to Travel, TUI’s Local Product and Qatar Airways’ AI Agent
On today’s podcast we unpack the impact AI on smartphones, TUI’s new local product, and Qatar Air’s new AI tool.
The AI on Your Phone Keeps Getting Better – That’s a Risk For Travel Companies
If the AI built directly into mobile phones allows users to book travel in the future, then will there be a need for third-party travel apps?
Exclusive: Qatar Airways to Launch AI Travel Agent
Customers flying with Qatar Airways will soon be able to ask an AI-powered travel agent to book their flights.
AI Developments in Travel: Skift Timeline
Travel has seen numerous advances in artificial intelligence in recent years that have been poised to significantly alter the industry, and here's a rundown of the most notable ones.
Booking Holdings Downplays Concerns That Agentic AI Platforms Will Displace It
Are generative AI platforms going to make Booking Holdings irrelevant? That's unlikely. The real issue is to what extent the company's economics may suffer.
Tripadvisor’s Perplexity Deal: AI for Customer Acquisition Is Now a Thing in Travel
The emergence of AI platforms such as Perplexity, ChatGPT and others could see the travel industry redirect a huge chunk of marketing spend away from Google. Although Google has its own entrant, Gemini.
TravelPerk President on What’s Next After Raising $200 Million
TravelPerk's biggest project of the year is expanding into an all-in-one corporate travel and expense management platform. It's what today's customers expect.
Corporate Travel, Flying Taxis: Startups Raise $300 Million Over Three Weeks
Travel startups have raised about $400 million so far this year. By this time in 2024, travel startups had raised more than twice that.