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Friday 25 September

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Air & distribution
Skift Feed全球

Travel's Agentic AI Future Faces Infrastructure and Cost Gaps

At Skift Global Forum, Steve Singh, Executive Chairman & CEO of Spotnana, and Elena Avila, EVP of Travel Distribution at Amadeus, discussed what must be in place for AI agents to work in travel. Singh said servicing accounts for 90% of the cost structure and 90% of dissatisfaction in a travel experience, and that agentic services can consistently deliver the quality of the top 5-10% of human agents. Avila said the industry needs shared standards for identity, data, and interoperability, without which agentic AI won't deliver its value. Singh estimated five to seven years to get there, noting the industry has 70 years of history working against shared standards. Avila also said compute costs…

OTA / TMC
Business Travel News全球 / North America

SkyLink Upgrades AI Servicing Capabilities with Amadeus

AI corporate travel assistant SkyLink has completed a roughly 18-month substantial upgrade, gaining resources from its Amadeus acquisition to scale globally. The upgrade enables real-time interruption and multi-instruction handling within conversations, adds more agentic capabilities such as exchanges, rebooking and multi-month trips, and includes robust analytics providing an auditable decision trail. Founded in 2021, SkyLink is an LLM-based tool integrated with enterprise chat channels including Microsoft Teams and Slack, with publicly identified clients McKinsey & Company and Sony, and sees TMC productivity as a growth area.

Data & research
Amadeus NewsroomIndia / Brazil / Texas / Italy / Sweden / New York / United States / Chicago

Amadeus Data: Chicago and New York Marathons Lift Air and Hotel Demand

Amadeus Travel Intelligence data shows rising air and hotel demand around the October Chicago Marathon and November New York Marathon. Domestic air bookings rise 13% for Chicago and 45% for New York in race weeks. Chicago race-weekend hotel occupancy is 85.9% at an ADR of $364, up 1.8% and 10.2% year on year; New York occupancy is 58.1%, down 0.7%, while ADR rises 12.4% to $369. International source markets including India, Brazil, Sweden and Italy grow, while Texas and the Sunbelt lead domestic growth.

Wednesday 23 September

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Data & research
Skift FeedBahrain / Singapore / Malaysia

F1 Bahrain Shuffle Turns October Into a Southeast Asia Hotel Boom

With the Bahrain Grand Prix relocated due to Middle East conflict, Malaysia's Sepang hosts the F1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix from October 2 to 4, its first race since 2017; the Singapore Grand Prix follows at Marina Bay from October 9 to 11. Forward-looking Amadeus Travel Intelligence data shows booked air arrivals from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore for October 5 to 11 tracking 74% higher year-on-year.

Tuesday 22 September

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OTA / TMC
TravelDaily ChinaShanghai / China

2026 TravelDaily Summit: AI Reshapes Travel Entry Points and Supply Chains

The 2026 TravelDaily Summit & Digital Travel Show was held on September 22-23, 2026 at the Shanghai International Convention Center under the theme of change, drawing more than 1,700 senior executives from OTA, hotel, airline, cruise, TMC, destination, travel technology, cultural-tourism consumption and investment segments. Sessions covered AI-driven industry change, shifts in global travel consumption and the restructuring of travel supply chains. TravelDaily CEO Li Chao said that as AI enters travel search, planning, customer service, development and operations, competition will return to the industrial base: real supply, inventory and pricing, fulfillment efficiency, experience design, c…

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