BCD Executive Discusses How AI Is Rewriting Business Travel Booking

On October 14, 2026, TravelDaily China reported that Gao Siwei, Managing Director of BCD Travel Greater China, judged in a speech titled "AI and the Future of Business Travel" at a business travel digitalization summit that AI is driving business travel booking from search-and-click toward conversational authorization. Citing a BCD Travel survey of more than 800 business travel managers in April of this year, he said that more than 90% of travel orders are already completed online, but only 7% of clients use AI only for fully automated booking, while 57% treat AI as an assistant that offers suggestions.