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Sep 28Mon
  1. TravelDaily China

    AI Travel Entrepreneur Tests GPT: Personal Trip Planning Process Rewritten

    At the 2026 TravelDaily Summit, Li Shaohua, co-founder and CEO of Beijing Shilv Network Technology, shared his views on travel AI applications and investment trends. He said AI plus travel has entered execution-layer competition: models understand intent, agents organize tasks, but fulfillment still requires travel companies. He personally tested GPT-5.6 for U.S. trip planning and concluded GPT has rewritten the personal travel service process, though booking and payment remain gaps. Surveys show 61% of U.S. consumers use agent services, but only 8% book directly through AI.

Aug 7Fri
  1. PhocusWire All News

    Google Maps Updates Ask Maps with Hotel and Event Discovery

    Google Maps has updated its conversational interface Ask Maps with hotel and local event discovery, extending the service to more countries. Users can ask for hotels with specific price ranges and ratings using natural language, and Ask Maps returns real-time prices and availability, along with suggestions for nearby activities and booking links. Personal Intelligence has been added, allowing users to connect Ask Maps to Gmail for trip-related suggestions. The service is now available in over 150 countries, including Australia, Brazil, and Canada.

Aug 3Mon
  1. Amadeus Newsroom

    Amadeus study: 75% of U.S. travelers use AI for planning, but booking trust lags

    Amadeus' report 'Tailored Horizons' reveals that 85% of U.S. travelers agree AI saves time and provides personalized recommendations, with 74% using AI during trip planning. However, trust declines when AI takes action: only 20% would allow AI to spend money autonomously within a budget, while 43% would allow it only with conditions. Travelers still desire human oversight, with 51% preferring a combination of AI and human expertise.

Jul 31Fri
  1. PhocusWire All News

    Expedia Acquires AI Travel Planning App Layla

    Expedia Group has acquired AI travel planning and booking app Layla for an undisclosed amount. The move accelerates its AI strategy by combining Layla's planning and personalization capabilities with Expedia's supply, scale, and technology. Layla was founded in 2023 and attracted €3 million in seed funding with backers including Lastminute.com founder Brent Hoberman. Expedia unveiled a ChatGPT app in November 2025.

  2. Expedia Group Newsroom

    Expedia Group acquires Layla to accelerate AI trip planning and booking

    Expedia Group has acquired Layla, an AI-native trip planning and booking platform, to accelerate its AI strategy. Layla, founded in 2023 and based in Berlin, helps travelers discover destinations, create personalized itineraries, and plan complete trips through a conversational travel agent. The acquisition combines Layla's advanced planning and personalization capabilities with Expedia Group's global supply, first-party traveler insights, marketplace scale, and booking technology, aiming to create richer, more personalized travel experiences and move travelers seamlessly from inspiration to booking.

Jul 21Tue
  1. PhocusWire All News

    30 Sundays raises $6.7M Series A for AI travel planning

    AI-powered vacation planning and booking tool 30 Sundays raised $6.7 million in Series A, bringing total funding to $7.5 million. Led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with existing investors Info Edge Ventures and Eximius Ventures increasing stakes. India-based, it offers video itineraries and conversational interface, with annualized gross booking value over $20 million from four destinations. Funds will boost product, tech, AI teams, marketing, and expand to new geographies and family segments.

Jul 13Mon
May 18Mon
  1. PhocusWire All News

    Globe Thrivers turns creator travel content into bookable trips

    Globe Thrivers, founded in 2023, uses AI to convert creator content from platforms like TikTok and Instagram into structured, collaborative, and bookable itineraries. The company generates revenue through hotel booking margins and platform fees on advisor-led bookings, and has partnered with Nuitée to expand lodging inventory. Its goal is to provide social-commerce infrastructure for travel and experiences, capturing and monetizing socially-driven travel demand, and addressing fragmented travel planning and broken attribution.

May 14Thu
  1. PhocusWire All News

    Ixigo launches AI-powered travel app with conversational booking and agentic AI

    India-based OTA Ixigo launched a rebuilt AI-native mobile app at its Ixigo NEXT event, featuring an upgraded TARA assistant supporting voice, text, or tap interactions in English, Hindi, and Hinglish. New features include Trip Mode consolidating boarding passes, gate/terminal details, baggage claim info, and travel alerts, plus Agentic Travel Flows that automate tasks like sending boarding passes via WhatsApp, updating Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes on flight changes, monitoring delays/cancellations, and coordinating with hotels for room readiness. Most agentic features are permission-based and opt-in.

Apr 14Tue
  1. PhocusWire All News

    The indulgent explorer: What drives premium travel decisions

    Phocuswright research defines 'indulgent explorers' as a high-value traveler segment that over-indexes on longer trips, higher in-destination spend, and premium components. Nearly three-quarters take multiple qualifying trips per year. Notably, 30% have household income under $100k and 26% have net worth under $100k, suggesting indulgence often reflects prioritization. They value safety, food quality, and privacy, with service being the top factor making a trip 'worth it.'

Apr 13Mon
  1. PhocusWire All News

    Startup Stage: Roameo targets group travel planning with swipe-to-match interface

    Hong Kong-based startup Roameo offers an AI-powered travel planning platform with a 'swipe-to-match' interface, integrating discovery, group coordination, and itinerary building. The platform gamifies group planning and captures high-intent behavioral insights for partners. Monetization includes B2C and B2B models: transaction revenue, freemium, and enterprise SaaS.

Apr 10Fri
  1. PhocusWire All News

    Almosafer adds AI travel planning with ChatGPT app

    Saudi Arabia-based Almosafer has launched a ChatGPT app offering AI-powered conversational travel planning. Travelers can access the OTA's inventory of over 1.5 million hotels, with the app supporting Arabic and English, allowing users to search properties, receive personalized recommendations, and build itineraries. The CEO says the move aims to simplify travel through innovation.

Mar 26Thu
  1. PhocusWire All News

    Layla.ai founder Saad Saeed bets on AI to solve travel planning puzzle

    Layla.ai founder Saad Saeed shares his entrepreneurial journey. Founded in 2023, Layla.ai aims to simplify travel planning using AI and creator content. The company has processed over $1 billion in planned trip value and has around 30,000 paying subscribers. It recently secured a seven-figure investment round from investors including United Airlines Ventures and Baidu Capital. Saeed believes three shifts—data availability, social media inspiration, and AI technology—make travel planning finally solvable.

Mar 14Sat
  1. PhocusWire All News

    Google Maps adds Gemini-powered conversational interface

    Google has launched a Gemini-powered conversational interface called Ask Maps and Immersive Navigation in Maps. Ask Maps allows users to ask questions in natural language, get personalized recommendations, and book restaurant reservations. Immersive Navigation provides a 3D view of buildings, overpasses, and terrain, highlighting crosswalks and stop signs. Ask Maps is rolling out in the U.S. and India, and Immersive Navigation is available to U.S. users.

Sep 18Thu
  1. Amadeus Newsroom

    Amadeus Research: Brits Still Rely on Friends and Family, but AI Use Grows 60%

    Amadeus released a global study covering 2,000 UK travellers. Friends and family recommendations remain the top source of inspiration for UK travellers (36%), but generative AI use grew 60% year-on-year, travel influencers 33% and social media ads 27%. AI use grew 146% in China, 82% in Singapore, 64% in Spain, 53% in India and 30% in the US. Among UK travellers, 70% would consider biometrics and 64% would use door-to-door baggage services. 80% agree provider quality emerges in disruption handling, and 81% would rebook with providers who handle disruptions efficiently.

  2. Amadeus Newsroom

    Amadeus Research: Gen AI and Social Media Transform How US Travellers Plan Travel

    Amadeus released a global study covering 2,000 US travellers. Social media is now the primary source of travel inspiration, with 34% of US travellers using it, up 21% year-on-year. Generative AI saw the fastest growth, with 17% of US travellers using AI tools, up 30%. 68% of travellers are willing to pay a one-off fee for an AI travel assistant, averaging 5.8% of total trip cost. 61% of Americans favour biometrics at airports.