Travel Technology

Travel startups raised $3.4 billion of venture capital in 2025, the final numbers show, up by 11% from 2024 and marking two consecutive years of growth off the 2023 trough.

AI is shaking up modern hotel distribution at the infrastructure level — and one of the latest signs comes from SiteMinder, which is now linking it to live data from its vast hotel inventory.

As intra-Asia travel picks up, destinations are waking up to the fact that payments are now core travel infrastructure. Sri Lanka’s bet is simple, if Asian travelers live inside super apps and e-wallets, that’s where tourism growth needs to happen too.

The AI strategy divergence among OTAs is no longer theoretical, with the approaches being which layer of the AI stack each one believes is worth owning.

Expedia’s new report says travelers don’t trust AI to book, preferring to transact with travel brands. At the same time, the OTA is expanding across AI platforms wherever trip decisions get made.  

AI is becoming the new front door to travel, and consumer behavior is moving faster than most companies can keep up.

Booking.com disclosed a data breach affecting reservation details, but with few specifics, travelers are left to gauge the risks themselves.

Google, Amazon, and Meta are set to give travel executives new distribution problems to worry about.

You can learn a lot about a company's AI ambitions by looking through their job listings.

Travel companies aren’t facing a new AI gatekeeper — they’re facing several. Now the infrastructure is being built across Amazon, Meta, and Google, and each works differently.