How Travel Professionals Really Feel About AI: Free Skift Research Report
Generative AI has captured the imagination. In our survey, travel professionals weigh in on the impact they see these new tools having.
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.
Best Time to Travel? Kayak Says Its New Tool Can Help
Customers will return to the platforms that make travel planning and booking more convenient. Maybe this tool could also capture customers who would otherwise be turned off by inflated rates.
HomeToGo Sees Record Booking Revenue, On Track to Break Even This Year
At a time when other vacation rental companies that went public in special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, deals are struggling, HomeToGo is paving its way toward profitability.
Interview: Expedia CEO on How Its AI Rollouts Would Be Impossible for Prior Regimes
First-mover advantage from online travel companies in generative AI might not hold up over the long-term. The chessboard may get overturned. Still, getting out there first doesn't hurt.
Brian Chesky’s Vision For Airbnb Going Ahead, Articulated
Airbnb has been out there a lot these last couple of weeks talking about its new product updates and launches, and CEO and Co-Founder Brian Chesky has been surprisingly open…
Google’s New Generative AI Tools for the Travel Sector
Google may be behind OpenAi regarding generative AI, but it's getting closer to catching up. Interestingly, it used a few travel-relevant examples when demonstrating its latest batch of capabilities.
IDEAS: Vienna Tourist Board Unveils ‘UnArtificial Art’
The Vienna Tourist Board has launched UnArtificial Art, a marketing campaign designed to ‘promote the city’s 100+ museums in order to “See the Art behind AI Art”’.
Barry Diller Says Expedia Has AI Edge With OpenAI CEO as a Director
Having OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on the Expedia Group board for the last few years certainly didn't hurt Expedia's ChatGPT rollout, although it's been using artificial intelligence for years.
Introducing Ask Skift, the AI Chatbot to Answer All Your Travel Industry Queries*
We are using AI to build the next, deeper phase of our relationship with you – indeed the next phase of Skift 11 years in – to graduate you from a Skift reader to a Skift user.
Saudi’s Almosafer Trials AI-Powered Chatbot and Voice Search
If ChatGPT drives gains for Saudi's largest travel player, companies worldwide will take note. Plus, this week's news from Red Sea Global, Oyo, Musafir, and other regional companies.