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How Is Agentic AI Changing Travel Booking? What Ask Skift Says
Agentic AI promises to collapse research, planning, and booking into one conversation — assuming travelers ever decide to trust it.
Alexa Plus Learned to Order Pizza. Travel Booking Is Next
Food ordering is Amazon's dress rehearsal for voice-driven travel planning and booking — a move that could put Alexa between travelers and travel suppliers.
Meta’s Prescription Ray-Bans Put Live Translation on More Travelers’ Faces
Meta sold 7 million AI glasses last year and now it's coming for the billions who need prescriptions. That puts a live language interpreter on travelers at all times — even without earbuds.
AI Won’t Replace Travel Booking But It’s Changing Everything Else
On Monday’s Good Morning Hospitality, A Skift Podcast, Wil Slickers, Michael Goldin, Brandreth Canaley, and Jamie Lane break down where AI is actually reshaping travel and why booking may not…
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A Glitch in the AI Framework?
The new framework could give travel a win on AI development, but does nothing for the pricing fight that's already began.
Trump’s AI Framework Aims to Shift States’ Authority — But Misses Travel’s Biggest Pressure Point
The new framework could give travel a win on AI development. It does nothing for the pricing fight that's already at their door.
India’s Travel Boom Is Real. The Payoff Hasn’t Come — Yet
India's travel stakeholders need to start converting cultural depth into bookable, premium products.
Google Offers Live Translation to Every iPhone, No AirPods Required
Live translation now works on any smartphone with any earbuds. One of travel's oldest frictions — not speaking the language — is becoming less of a barrier.
Hotels Are Losing Travelers’ Discovery Window — And Scrambling to Get It Back
Hotels are no longer just competing at booking. As discovery shifts to social platforms, recommendations, and artificial intelligence tools, big groups are trying to shape demand much earlier.
GMH Hotels: Is Hyatt About to Beat OTAs With AI?
On this week’s Good Morning Hospitality, A Skift Podcast: GMH Hotels Edition, Sarah Dandashy and guest host Katie Cline, host of Suite Success: Masters of Hospitality, a Skift Podcast, break…