The last two years of travel-tech strategy have organized around one question: can we match the market leaders on AI-powered search and booking? For most platforms, the honest answer by mid-2026 is yes, roughly. The chatbots exist. The recommendation engines…
Every travel platform's 2026 roadmap has a line that reads something like AI-powered personalization or in-destination recommendations. Almost none of them have a line that reads in-destination infrastructure. That is the gap. Personalization has been treated, structurally, as a feature.…
Forty-four percent of in-destination activities are booked outside the platform that originated the trip. Not because travelers are disloyal. Because the platform gave them no reason to stay. The Funnel You Built Isn't Broken — It's Just Incomplete The OTA…
How DMCs Can Fill Partner Coverage Gaps Without Operational Overhead The destination management industry faces a paradox: travelers increasingly demand comprehensive, personalized experiences across every moment of their journey, yet most DMCs struggle to deliver beyond their core inventory. According…
Competitive Intelligence for Mid-Market OTAs Booking.com's AI Trip Planner represents more than a feature launch; it's a strategic repositioning from transactional booking utility to inspirational travel curator that mid-market OTAs must decode and counter. When 71% of travelers expect AI-driven…
You're Winning the Booking War But Losing the Revenue Battle Over 60% of travel budgets now flow to in-destination experiences and yet most operators capture less than 20% of that spend. I bet even 20% is me being generous. We've…