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AI makes strengths stronger and weaknesses worse. This edition is about learning to control the direction.
1. The Travel Tech Essentialist Copilot just got a lot smarterSix weeks ago, I introduced an AI agent for travel founders, operators, and execs. But in the past two weeks, I rebuilt it from the ground up, and it's a much-improved tool.
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This is a guest post by André Rangel, co-founder and CEO of Tryp.com.
In a recent newsletter, I wrote about the conflict between eDreams and Tryp.com. Shortly after that, I reached out to André to hear his perspective. I wanted to unders...
A lot of what looks like disruption is really rebundling. AI is reshaping which tasks belong to which roles. Airlines are rewiring how they create demand. Solo living is restructuring who travels and how. And capital is quietly shifting to different parts of the hotel stack. The bundles we took for granted are being taken apart and reassembled.
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When AI makes execution cheap and fast, value migrates to what machines can't replicate: the judgment to know what problems matter, the perception to spot when reality shifts before others do, and the lived experiences that reveal friction no dashboard ever will. This edition looks at what becomes precious when everything else becomes abundant…from domain expertise to physica...
Much of the noise in travel tech focuses on short-term moves: funding rounds, launches, partnerships, product tweaks. Some of the stories in this issue look at what’s moving underneath. From AI reshaping how discovery and decisions happen, to new frameworks for growth, to long-cycle shifts like agent-led commerce and the quiet return of reviews as infrastructure. These are ch...