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Visa launches travel platform with curated experiences in 10 destinations
By Cathy Walsh
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June 30, 2026
Visa Destinations gives cardholders access to curated experiences, city guides and travel benefits across 10 locations.
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Holibob launches conversational booking platform for travel experiences
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June 30, 2026
The launch brings Holibob's natural language booking technology directly to travelers and includes an integration with Google's Things to Do.
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Skyscanner launches AI travel discovery, road trip planning tools
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June 30, 2026
The company is testing personalized destination recommendations and road trip itineraries while also expanding flight tracking, price alerts and accommodations.
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Startup Stage: Pintours is building AI-powered tours that adapt to every traveler
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June 29, 2026
Pintours combines audio narration, navigation, augmented reality and conversational AI to tailor experiences to each traveler's interests, location and language.
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Supercharging travel: 10 Trends that will shape the industry over the next decade
By Matthew Parsons
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June 22, 2026
Download the PhocusWire and RateHawk report on the trends, technologies and industry shifts set to shape travel professionals over the next decade.
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Tern launches agentic AI to boost travel advisor efficiency
By Cathy Walsh
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June 10, 2026
The technology can generate cruise proposals and draft communications for advisor approval.
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OTA moats against AI disruption may be shallower than they appear
By Christian Watts - Magpie
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June 8, 2026
Christian Watts, founder and CEO of Magpie, argues that loyalty programs, unique inventory and bundling will offer less protection as travel discovery moves to AI platforms.
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Startup Stage: TravelOne targets luxury travel with behavior profiling platform
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May 26, 2026
The platform matches travelers with destinations and itineraries based on psychological and personality markers.
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Startup Stage: Globe Thrivers turns creator travel content into bookable trips
By Cathy Walsh
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May 18, 2026
The startup is building AI-powered infrastructure that turns creator content into structured itineraries, collaborative planning and attributed bookings.
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Ixigo launches travel app with conversational booking and agentic AI
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May 14, 2026
The app includes natural language trip planning through Ixigo’s AI assistant TARA and AI-powered tools for flight alerts, boarding passes and post-booking support.
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Startup Stage: Voyagier targets luxury travel with AI-powered trip planning and booking
By Cathy Walsh
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May 11, 2026
The early-stage startup brings together AI-powered trip planning, luxury travel advisors and booking infrastructure.
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Startup Stage: Altitude AI wants to modernize unmanaged business travel
By Cathy Walsh
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May 4, 2026
The startup is building an AI-powered business travel platform designed to help companies without dedicated travel teams book trips and control travel spend.
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An alternative roadmap to address overtourism
By Noam Toister - Travelier
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April 20, 2026
As Earth Day approaches, Noam Toister, founder of Travelier, argues that digitizing ground and sea transport is key to enabling dispersal and easing overtourism.
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Tripadvisor demos AI planning tool
By Morgan Hines
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March 26, 2026
Tripadvisor partnered up with Nvidia, Nebius and Nexla to show an AI feature at Nvidia GTC 2026.
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Sabre takes stake in BizTrip AI, plans AI corporate travel assistants
By Linda Fox
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January 14, 2026
The partnership pairs Sabre’s agentic APIs and MCP with BizTrip AI’s travel LLM model and agentic AI capabilities.
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