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Google's take on travel search and AI's influence
By Abby Crotty
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July 25, 2025
Google's director of travel, Sergio Torrijos Selma, discussed search trends, delving deeper into how AI will transform the trip planning process and impact travel marketers.
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Google parent Alphabet's earnings exceed expectations on back of AI, advertising
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July 24, 2025
CEO Sundar Pichai said AI is having a positive impact across every part of the business and driving strong momentum for Alphabet.
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Air France-KLM partners with Accenture, Google Cloud to launch gen AI factory
By Abby Crotty
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July 17, 2025
The new gen AI factory is hosted on Google Cloud and supports agentic AI capabilities.
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Instagram's Google integration: A game changer for travel marketing
By Mario Gavira
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July 15, 2025
Mario Gavira discusses Instagram's Google integration, calling the implications "profound" amid the visual storytelling era.
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Startup Stage: Kismet wants to bring hotels to conversational search
By Abby Crotty
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July 9, 2025
Kismet, founded just last year, wants to help hotels leverage AI to boost sales.
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SEO has left the party: How travel marketing could change
By Morgan Hines
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July 3, 2025
Digital travel marketing has changed immensely in recent years, but more shifts are on the horizon as technology, namely AI, continues to evolve.
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Optimizing airline customer engagement: Integrating airline partners at every touchpoint
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June 30, 2025
Partnerships enable airlines to optimize customer engagement at multiple touchpoints, contributing data and insights, closing service gaps, mitigating disruption, providing specialized services and...
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FBI warns airlines about looming cybersecurity attacks
By Morgan Hines
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June 30, 2025
Almost one year after the CrowdStrike outage grounded flights, airlines face cybersecurity threats from Scattered Spider.
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Travel AI is fragile—can adversarial training fix that?
By Timothy O'Neil-Dunne - T2Impact
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June 27, 2025
Timothy O'Neil-Dunne, principal of tech consultancy T2Impact, delves into the challenges of integrating AI with legacy infrastructures.
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Lighthouse introduces Connect AI solution for hotels
By Abby Crotty
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June 26, 2025
Lighthouse's new solution, Connect AI, bridges the gap between hotel brands and AI chat interfaces.
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The evolving role of AI in business travel
By Mark Frary
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June 18, 2025
In the year since the 2024 Business Travel Show Europe, we have seen a torrent of AI-related announcements and launches in the business travel sector.
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Mary Meeker AI Trends Report: 7 takeaways for the travel industry
By Matthew Parsons
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June 16, 2025
The lengthy report offers crucial takeaways for the travel industry, including insights into hospitality automation, autonomous cars and an agentic future.
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Travel industry readies itself for the arrival of agentic commerce
By Matthew Parsons
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June 9, 2025
The groundwork for agentic commerce is being done. The question is: How prepared is the travel sector?
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Agoda launches AI-powered vacation planner for Indian travelers
By Abby Crotty
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June 4, 2025
The travel planner was built with Google's AI technology and is available until June 30 as part of a marketing campaign.
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How will generative AI impact travel distribution?
By Abby Crotty
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May 29, 2025
In the latest installment of Phocuswright’s The New Age(nts) Trend Series, industry leaders discussed the travel sector’s preparedness for distribution shifts in the face of the generative AI...
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