AI in Travel

What's a tech stack these days if it isn't AI-powered? RateGain plans to use the raise to build its own through investments and acquisitions.

Will Sam Altman return to OpenAI? Will he bring Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky along with him as an OpenAI director? The competition will be intense for any board openings.

Travelers have increasingly high expectations for personalized offers, seamless booking, and frictionless planning across the travel journey. Artificial intelligence (AI) provides travel brands with solutions to address those expectations with new tools that can improve the travel shopping experience and drive targeted customer acquisition.

California-based RedAwning has introduced updates to its communication features for Airbnb superhosts. 

This is the second notable acquisition of an AI company in the travel industry this week. It follows Airbnb's purchase of GamePlanner.AI.

Airbnb made public filings on Tuesday showing that its acquisition of AI company GamePlanner.AI was paid partially with stock valued at about $104.5 million. 

Today's podcast discusses Airbnb's AI investment, Riyadh Air's ambitions, and Turkey's tourism cooling.

Adam Cheyer has driven a lot of success through his work at past companies. Now he's at Airbnb, showing the company really is serious about its dedication to integrating AI.

Uber started as a rideshare app, but the vision is to be much more than that.

Hidden in Tripadvisor's latest earnings from earlier this week was some updates on its AI-based trip planning feature that it launched in July, along with some concrete numbers on performance…