The End is the Beginning: The Future Belongs to the Decisive Travel Age West’s Need to Know survey of 150 travel business owners found more than half (58%) of them claimed their sales were higher in 2025 vs 2024: 34% said they were slightly higher while 24% say sales were significantly higher. Looking ahead to…
From Overwhelmed, Exhausted Travel Search to Decided Bookings When I visit travel websites and influencer social media pages, I’m impressed with the personal creativity and style they deliver in their content. In some cases, they’re enjoying good success via their fun, personalized, engaged and even delightful discussion of travel (joy of travel), discovery of perfect…
Make the Travel AI Threat a Benefit There’s a lot of fear about AI these days. It’s disrupting the travel sector at a faster pace and most small travel companies likely don’t have a plan to deal with it. The rising competition is a data center full of high speed, advanced servers collecting data on…
🤖 Travel AI Agents vs AI Travel Planners AI travel technology is transforming how people plan their trips and how travel businesses serve their clients and customers. It’s making travel planning, booking, and management much easier and raising confidence in travel whether domestic or round-the-world trips. Whether it’s predictive pricing, AI-powered concierge services, or smart…
DeepSeek’s Bold Move into the AI Assistant Marketplace As you might know, the NASDAQ crashed upon the announcement of performance test results from a new AI LLM/chatbot service called Deepseek. Nvidia was down $1 trillion in market cap at one point! This AI-powered assistant (DeepSeek V3 powered by DeepThink R1) is competing with OpenAI and…