Category Technology, AI, Organisations & Operators

In line with its innovation and digital transformation strategy, PROMPERÚ, Peru’s tourism promotion agency, has officially launched an AI-powered virtual travel planning assistant, integrated into its official tourism portal Peru.travel, marking a new milestone in the promotion of the country as a travel destination.

TBO, a global B2B travel distribution platform, has renewed its collaboration with Vervotech to integrate advanced hotel mapping capabilities, reinforcing a previously established partnership between the two companies. This renewed engagement reflects a shared commitment to enhancing the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of hotel data across TBO’s expanding global distribution network.

Following its public listing, TBO has accelerated its expansion into new markets, significantly increasing the scale and complexity of its supply ecosystem. This growth has heightened the need for robust data mapping infrastructure to support multi-language content, regional variations, and diverse supplier inputs.

Travelers who use artificial intelligence for trip planning and in‑destination support are emerging as the industry’s most valuable customer segment, according to new research from Phocuswright.  The findings show that AI‑using travelers take more trips, spend significantly more per year and engage more deeply with digital travel tools than those who have not adopted AI.

Phocuswright’s new report, The AI Surge: Travel’s Fastest Behavioral Shift in a Decade, reveals that AI travelers have a median household income of $129,200 compared to $104,000 for nonusers, and take 3.8 leisure trips per year versus 2.9 among nonusers. They also spend $4,500 annually on leisure travel, far outpacing the $3,000 spent by those who do not use AI.

TravelAI, the UpNext company pioneering the next generation of agentic AI for travel, today announced the appointment of Shie Gabbai and Brianna MacNeil to senior leadership roles. These hires mark a significant step in TravelAI’s mission to reshape how travelers plan, book, and experience travel through intelligent, autonomous AI agents.

TravelAI, the UpNext company pioneering the next generation of agentic AI for travel, today announced the appointment of Shie Gabbai and Brianna MacNeil to senior leadership roles. These hires mark a significant step in TravelAI’s mission to reshape how travelers plan, book, and experience travel through intelligent, autonomous AI agents.

Artificial Intelligence is shifting power in travel distribution away from visibility and toward trust, redefining how travelers discover, evaluate and book experiences.

Rather than eliminating intermediaries, AI is reshaping where value — and control — sits across the travel ecosystem. As travelers increasingly rely on AI assistants to plan trips, the industry is moving from a search-driven model to one where algorithms decide what gets seen — and what gets sold.

12Go, the leading ground and sea transport brand in Asia and part of the Travelier group, today launches a ChatGPT App, bringing its large choice of buses, ferries, trains, and multimodal routes across Asia directly into ChatGPT. For the first time, travelers worldwide can use natural language to search and compare transport across Asia’s most fragmented transport ecosystems — and book in seconds once redirected to 12Go’s website and App.

House Republicans are set to introduce two new federal data privacy bills that would set nationwide rules for how companies collect and use personal data. The proposals replace more than 20 different state privacy laws and give consumers new rights to access and control their information.

This matters for the travel industry because travel companies – from booking platforms to B2B technology providers – handle large volumes of personal data across state lines every day. A single national standard would directly affect how these businesses operate, protect data and deliver seamless customer experiences.

The global airline industry currently generates an estimated 3.6 million tonnes of cabin and catering waste annually, based on 2024–2025 data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the Aviation Sustainability Forum (ASF). This volume is to be at four million tonnes by late 2025 and could potentially double by 2040 if current practices are not changed, primarily due to the increased passengers’ numbers.

One Planet Group, a closely held private equity firm that owns and operates a portfolio of technology and media businesses, today announced the upcoming launch of Quite Remarkable, a new travel and lifestyle company built to redefine the standards of modern luxury through technology, service, one-of-a kind properties, experiences and intentional design. The platform is slated for initial launch in Fall 2026.