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I go down the rabbit hole of AI & Travel so you don't have to! One email each week keeps you up to date.

November 23, 2026Tony Carne

Why launch an AI travel business in Saudi Arabia?

Ritesh Raj's Saudi-first go-to-market: local relevance before a global fight for OTA clicks.

November 16, 2026Tony Carne

Can your AI agent sell, or does it only answer questions?

Noam Shapira explains how Via.ai connects conversations to inventory, commercial rules and the customer relationship.

November 12, 2026Tony Carne

ChatGPT will now show you how people are finding you there

Plus: businesses move into ChatGPT, the cost of a free trip planner, and the next customer might be an agent.

November 10, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: Why 'SEO is dead' keeps being wrong. Michael Ryan on AI search for travel brands

Michael Ryan hears 'SEO is dead' every second day. His reply: most of what gets a travel brand seen in AI search is the same craft it's been for 20 years.

November 5, 2026Tony Carne

Which version of you is your AI planning for?

Plus: AI gets the company card, the money worked out trip planning years ago, and why invisible isn't a superpower

November 2, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: This secret AI company is coming out of stealth to sell hotels to your personal agent

October 29, 2026Tony Carne

Creator marketing is now infrastructure - and AI search is raising the stakes

Plus: AI agents are about to make free cancellation very expensive, Meta's Muse lands in Japan and Singapore with zero inventory, and your agent might be blowing its first impressions

October 28, 2026Tony Carne

The (in)complete landscape of AI + Travel

Every AI company we could find in travel, on one map

October 26, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: Why Scout deleted $30,000 of AI content. Chris Stockwell on real travellers over AI insights

Scout deleted two million AI-written insights. Chris Stockwell explains why real travellers' stories won.

October 22, 2026Tony Carne

Travellers will hand AI the chores but they're keeping the choices.

Plus: YGO's €8M plumbing raise, the AI discovery bump that may not last, and the videos AI actually cites

October 19, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: Search finds the trip. Who decides? Michael Culhane on an agentic travel marketplace

Better search isn't better judgement. Michael Culhane on how traveller and supplier agents could negotiate the trip.

October 15, 2026Tony Carne

Booking's AI wants the trip, even when Expedia got the booking

Plus: PROS puts AI near the money, and the map of B2B AI in travel wants your company

October 12, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: Can AI bring hotels more direct bookings? Antonio Picozzi on what actually counts

October 8, 2026Tony Carne

As AI travel discovery moves, Who keeps the booking?

October 2, 2026Tony Carne

The agents have arrived: $1B in annualised transactions are the result

September 29, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: What happens to community-based tourism if AI becomes the new way travellers discover and book experiences — but the experiences themselves are still offline?

September 24, 2026Tony Carne

Muse is upending travel booking at breakneck speed - are you ready?

September 23, 2026Tony Carne

What does it take to build a travel startup that gets acquired by one of the biggest B2B travel technology companies in the world?

September 17, 2026Tony Carne

The connected trip failed in the internet age. Will AI finally solve it?

September 14, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: Thomas Bangert is using AI to build the single API for multi-day touring

September 10, 2026Tony Carne

Did Anthropic just level the playing field in travel with its commerce agents?

September 8, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: Vadym Klymov lost his entire hotel business in the Ukraine war and is now helping other hotel companies connect with important niches via AI

September 3, 2026Tony Carne

Where in the loop is valuable for the human to sit?

September 1, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: Kevin Gautier from Jinko lays out the world of agentic booking in travel

August 27, 2026Tony Carne

Trivago & loveholidays show the way on ramping performance with AI instead of cutting headcount

August 24, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: Faisal Murtaza on where hotel revenue management and AI collide

August 20, 2026Tony Carne

What is the AI connection to Airbnb suddenly rushing to rent activities and car rentals?

August 17, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: Oliver Green breaks down 5 practical things you can do right now to improve your business with a $20 Claude account

August 13, 2026Tony Carne

Will AI finally "connect the trip"?

August 6, 2026Tony Carne

What you need to know about the EU's new rules on AI - is this the new GDPR?

August 4, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: Veerle Witte on how travel companies can turn their customers into storytellers and use AI to unlock insights hidden inside those stories?

July 30, 2026Tony Carne

MCP's now make Claude really personal in travel

July 24, 2026Tony Carne

Why hasn't AI disrupted events and conferences?

July 16, 2026Tony Carne

80-90% of mentions about your brand on AI don't come from your brand

June 26, 2026Tony Carne

AI is disrupting the digital customer journey - but not how you might think

June 18, 2026Tony Carne

The missing link to AI getting really personalised is the MD file

June 11, 2026Tony Carne

Are hotels just cosplaying AI?

June 5, 2026Tony Carne

Google now offers complete visibility into your GEO performance

May 28, 2026Tony Carne

Travel operators ramp up AI spending

May 27, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: Bethany Reitsma from The Travel Tech Association open up on startup funding in the age of AI

May 21, 2026Tony Carne

Google spills the real tea on GEO/AEO - what they said might surprise you!

May 14, 2026Tony Carne

Disney AI to replace travel agents

May 7, 2026Tony Carne

Booking’s 5 point AI agent plan you can steal

April 30, 2026Tony Carne

The growing gap between ambition and execution across the travel ecosystem

April 23, 2026Tony Carne

Google enlists SEO's to weed out the AI slop

April 16, 2026Tony Carne

AI as the lens through which every deal gets evaluated

April 9, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: John Taylor Garner went from trading volatility to building AI infrastructure for travel rewards.

April 7, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast : Gary Gumbleton on how to build a content engine with a lean team

April 2, 2026Tony Carne

AI lifts insurance conversions by 24%

March 26, 2026Tony Carne

The problem is, and has always been, what data the model is working with

March 25, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: Jason Swick is building the AI workspace for DMOs

March 23, 2026Tony Carne

$9M in cruise sales came from TikTok - He doesn’t look like a TikTok star but 70% of Walter Biscardi Jnr’s came from this channel

March 21, 2026Tony Carne

What is the true cost of building AI solutions?

March 18, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: Egor Karpovich has set up an army of AI agents to help scale his Travel Code business

March 12, 2026Tony Carne

Travel comes dead last when it comes to agents

March 5, 2026Tony Carne

Only 2.9% of Travel workforce possess AI skills - report

March 3, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: Robert Cole tells us why both you and your business need a digital identity in an agentic world

February 26, 2026Tony Carne

The last time Booking Holdings Inc. saw this kind of pressure, the world was shutting down

February 23, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast Show: John O'Sullivan scaled from tour operator using social to creator led media company with tours as just one product line

February 19, 2026Tony Carne

A travel SaaS business with 21 AI employees

February 18, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: John Lyotier is back with more on how the TravelAI.com machine is building the machine

February 13, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast Show: Madison Rifkin on How to Beat OTAs at Their Own Game: Build Your Own Creator Engine

February 12, 2026Tony Carne

DMO’s are seeing 20-30% organic traffic decline because of AI (and what they are doing about it)

February 10, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: Jason Bryant from Oracle gives us their latest thinking on how to apply AI in travel

February 5, 2026Tony Carne

A very weird week, even by AI standards

February 4, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast Show: Justin Buzzi scored 300M views on his travel brand's social media accounts in 2025 (and tells us how)

January 29, 2026Tony Carne

$1M to get your ads onto ChatGPT

January 22, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: Christian Watts returns to look at our 2025 predictions. Were they right?

January 20, 2026Tony Carne

Educational Series Podcast: The final tool - create an article from image with AI for your LinkedIn post

January 12, 2026Tony Carne

Educational Series Podcast: Tourism marketing isn’t only B2C. If you want high-value visitors, you also need the right partners.

January 7, 2026Tony Carne

New Podcast: Shahar Goldboim takes us through an AI-native operating system for vacation rental managers.

January 5, 2026Tony Carne

Educational Series Podcast: You already have great destination content. Now use AI to turn it into a social campaign people actually engage with

December 22, 2025Tony Carne

Educational Series Podcast: AI isn’t just for marketing tourists — it’s for empowering the people who serve them

December 18, 2025Tony Carne

The Top 5 of 2025

December 15, 2025Tony Carne

New Education Series: Santiago Rodriguez introduces the self-guided tour creator AI

December 10, 2025Tony Carne

New Podcast: Healey Cypher, co-founder & CEO of BoomPop, a company that just raised $25M to make planning in-person events, offsites and group travel radically easier with AI.

December 9, 2025Tony Carne

New Podcast: New Educational Podcast: Santiago Rodriguez PhD introduces us to the AI Blogger

December 4, 2025Tony Carne

Google tells us exactly where we need to concentrate to navigate the change in search

December 2, 2025Tony Carne

New Education Series: Episode 4 Statistical Forecasting - the Nine Tools to Attract High-Value Visitors

November 27, 2025Tony Carne

Microsoft drops solution for your internal AI sprawl

November 26, 2025Tony Carne

New Podcast: Aimee Armstrong - from Superbikes to super charged business travel with Altitude AI

November 24, 2025Tony Carne

New Education Podcast: Sergio Rodriguez and AI help you master market analysis in 15 minutes

November 20, 2025Tony Carne

Google strikes back on Trip Planning with Canvas

November 17, 2025Tony Carne

New Podcast: FREE Tool No.1 - The Tourism Expert with Santiago Rodriguez

November 6, 2025Tony Carne

You Meta ads are probably tanking badly right now

November 4, 2025Tony Carne

New Podcast: Everything AI in Travel is now bringing you FREE AI education with Santiago Rodriguez PHD

October 30, 2025Tony Carne

Only 1 in 5 travel companies are fully committed to AI - Report

October 27, 2025Tony Carne

New Podcast: Claire Robinson is betting on hyper focused data to win with AI

October 23, 2025Tony Carne

Beware the AI digital sprawl in your company

October 22, 2025Tony Carne

New Podcast: Mennan Yelkenci on taking big B2C swings in AI + Travel

October 16, 2025Tony Carne

Chesky: "If AI is the trend, what is the anti-trend." He is going after that.