Generative Ai travel tips

Skift Research believes that generative Artificial Intelligence represents a $28 billion-plus opportunity for the travel industry. It stands to change the way that we search for travel, how companies provide customer service, and could drive operational efficiencies across the industry.

Booking Holdings intends to build on its decade-long experience of using artificial intelligence (AI) to make the most of recent advances in the field and apply them to online travel.

Travel booking company eDreams Odigeo is testing Google’s generative AI capabilities on its online platforms, the companies said Thursday. 

Google announced on Wednesday several features powered by generative AI, including a few relevant to the travel sector. The news was shared at Google I/O, the company’s annual developer conference, presented by Google CEO Sundar Pichai and other company executives.

To better understand how people working in the travel industry feel about new AI tools, like ChatGPT and its many extensions, and the impact it will have on their job and company, Skift Research recently launched a short survey. 

GetYourGuide, the booking platform for ticketed tours and activities worldwide, is the latest travel company to get a plugin on ChatGPT Plus. 

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Priceline is implementing generative AI from Google Cloud in several areas of its business. 

Choice Hotels sees a potential in generative AI (artificial intelligence) to reshape the hotel sector, according to an interview chief information officer Brian Kirkland did on Bloomberg TV right before the U.S. Memorial Day holiday weekend.

Expedia Group and Vacasa are both moving forward with tech investments to compete with other big players in the short-term rental industry. Executives from both public companies shared details about current projects during Skift’s Short-Term Rental Summit in New York on Wednesday. 

Skift has covered quite a few travel companies as they have released products powered by generative AI. Most have been about consumer travel planning and booking, primarily because those were the first products announced and released. 

Booking.com is rolling out an AI Trip Planner to U.S. members of its Genius travel rewards program on its mobile app starting Wednesday, the company announced.

Hotel companies hope artificial intelligence (AI) will improve their skill at pricing rooms. Known as revenue management, the field relies on forecasting and is ripe for disruption.

Exactly one year since it went public, Mondee has released an updated version of its travel booking platform to include a mobile app and a generative AI chatbot. 

The world of generative AI in travel is starting to get more interesting. 

Trip.com was among the first large online travel agencies to release a simple chatbot powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Ever since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT service last December, travel companies have been rapidly devising strategies to use generative AI to boost business.