Category Events, Technology, AI, Tourism, Organisations & Operators

‘OTHERNESS: Staying Different in an AI-Normalised World’

Travelgate, part of the Travelsoft Group, is hosting the sixth edition of ConX, an invitation-only conference bringing together more than 1,000 senior executives from global travel distribution on 2 June at Poble Espanyol in Palma de Mallorca. Huawei returns as Main Sponsor for this edition.

Under the theme ‘Otherness’, ConX 2026 confronts the central tension of the AI era: when every competitor runs the same models, trains on the same data and deploys the same tools, differentiation becomes the only sustainable advantage. The programme brings together the people best placed to define what that differentiation looks like — and to build it.

KAYAK Launches Ask AI to Simplify Travel Planning Just in Time for the World Cup

KAYAK today introduced Ask AI, a new conversational travel planning experience designed to help travelers search, compare, and book trips more easily, as interest surges ahead of this summer’s World Cup.

Building on KAYAK’s mission to make travel search more personalized and conversational, Ask AI is an industry first that lets travelers start planning their trip in a chat—while flight, hotel, and rental car results update live alongside the conversation, combining the ease of AI with the power of a traditional results page.