Travel Technology

Sabre didn't just report a strong quarter — it used that to publicly pick the biggest fight in airline technology.

Weather.com as a first, not last stop in trip planning? Travel content platform Steller and The Weather Company aim to prove that social videos and weather forecasts can reshape the way people find and book itineraries.

In addition to other Booking Holdings' brands, Seat Geek is listed as a partner. Users would presumably be able to use conversational AI to get "insider access" and discounted rates from Booking brands and partners.

The great AI upskilling of the travel workforce has begun, but even among the industry’s largest companies, the gap between who is preparing their employees for AI and who is just cutting with it is widening fast.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Sabre has spent a year selling agentic AI as its comeback story. Mindtrip Flights is the first product that has to prove it. 

Google built the AI search surfaces displacing travel’s organic traffic. Now it’s bringing travel advertisers into the system that powers them — and the price is the keyword control paid search has run on for decades.

Wyndham believes AI tools will eventually bring relief to franchisee P&Ls, though not immediately across the board for all hotels.

Grab's consumer super app is becoming mapping infrastructure for Big Tech in Southeast Asia. Travel brands may not compete with it — but they may increasingly depend on it.

The biggest win for the hospitality sector will be the elimination of manual licensing and compliance checks that quietly drain operator time and margin.

Investors see AI creating a new generation of travel distributors, while others say the real work still runs through the old ones.