Everything AI in Travel
This podcast is a companion to the Everything AI in Travel weekly newsletter. It features conversations with the makers, shapers, and buyers of AI technology in the travel industry. Each episode explores how artificial intelligence is being applied across travel and tourism.
Episodes
Antonio Picozzi wants you to have more direct bookings. Is that what you want too?
Watch the video version on YouTube:https://youtu.be/W351rvSAq5YIn this episode of the Everything AI in Travel podcast, I speak with Antonio Picozzi, co-founder and CEO of dAirect, about helping hotels get found through AI assistants without handing the customer straight back to an OTA.Got a travel problem AI might solve? Find the AI you need: tell me what's frustrating you and I'll personally intr
What happens to community-based tourism if AI becomes the new way travellers discover and book experiences — but the experiences themselves are still **offline?**
In this episode of the **Everything AI in Travel podcast**, I speak with **Emmanuel Annor, co-founder and CTO of Equera.ai**, about using AI to connect some of tourism's smallest and least-digitised businesses to the global travel ecosystem.Emmanuel brings an interesting background to the problem. Before Equera, he built fintech and agritech products used by more than **70,000 farmers across Afric
What does it take to build a travel startup that gets acquired by one of the biggest B2B travel technology companies in the world?
In this episode of the Everything AI in Travel podcast, I speak with Amit Shamni, founder of Bridgify, about building a technology layer for one of travel’s most fragmented categories — tours, activities and experiences — and the journey that ultimately led to Bridgify being acquired by HBX Group.Amit started with a simple observation: booking flights and hotels online was easy, but finding and bo
What if the biggest thing holding multi-day tours back isn’t demand — but infrastructure?
In this episode of the Everything AI in Travel podcast, I speak with Thomas Bangert, founder of Travecta, about building the connectivity layer he believes multi-day travel has been missing.Thomas has spent 26 years in travel, including more than a decade at lastminute.com, followed by roles with TripAdvisor and Amadeus, consulting work with companies including Sojern and PerfectStay, and time wit
What if the biggest problem in hotel booking isn’t finding a hotel — but finding one that actually works for you?
In this episode of the Everything AI in Travel podcast, I speak with Vadym Klymov, founder and CEO of WinWin Travel, about using AI to solve one of travel’s surprisingly stubborn problems: personalization.Vadym comes at the problem from firsthand experience. He spent 12 years in hospitality in Ukraine, growing from renting out his grandparents’ four-room summer house to operating his own 48-room g
What happens when AI agents stop just planning travel and start actually booking it?
In this episode of the Everything AI in Travel podcast, I catch up with Kevin Gautier, CEO and founder of Jinko — almost exactly one year after we first spoke about what he was building.Kevin is a four-time travel founder whose journey has taken him from video travel reviews and NDC aggregation to a Gen Z flight app that reached #2 in the French App Store, a stint helping build Hopper in Europe, a
What does hotel revenue management look like when AI moves from simply analysing the data to actually telling you what to do next?
In this episode of the **Everything AI in Travel podcast**, I speak with Faisal Murtaza, founder of Sarucci, about how AI is changing one of the most data-heavy — and commercially important — functions inside a hotel.Faisal has worked across hotel operations, revenue management and distribution since 2011, managing everything from boutique properties to portfolios of 11 hotels and 3,000 rooms. Now
Oliver Green chats practical uses of AI for Tour Operators you can do right now
What can a tour operator actually do with AI right now — not in five years, not in theory, but today?In this episode of the Everything AI in Travel Podcast, I sit down with Oliver Green, founder of Tourstack and former co-founder of Carpe Diem Tours, to get extremely practical about what AI can already do inside a tours and activities business.Ollie isn't just talking about AI. He's building with
How can travel companies turn their customers into storytellers with a little help from AI?
How can travel companies turn their customers into storytellers—and use AI to unlock insights hidden inside those stories?In this episode of the Everything AI in Travel Podcast, Tony Carne sits down with Veerle Wit, founder of Travel Diaries, to explore how a simple travel journaling app has evolved into an AI-powered platform helping tour operators capture authentic user-generated content, market
Everything AI in Travel chats to Bethany Reitsma of the Travel Tech Association about startup funding in the age of AI
In this episode of the Everything AI in Travel podcast, Tony Carne sits down with Bethany Reitsma from the Travel Technology Association to explore the fast-changing world of travel tech startups, AI-native companies, angel investing, and the future of innovation in travel.Bethany shares how the Travel Technology Association evolved from representing major industry players like Booking, Expedia, a
Everything AI in Travel chats to John Taylor Garner from Odynn on their recent capital raise
They raised money in AI travel…which already makes Odynn one of the rare ones.In this episode of the Everything AI in Travel Podcast, I sit down with John Taylor Garner, founder of Odynn, to unpack what they’re building at the intersection of travel, loyalty, fintech, and AI.We get into:Why John left a top trading desk at Merrill to start building in travelWhat he learned from his first startup, C
Everything AI in travel chats to Jason Swick of SwixAI on orchastrating the AI workspace for DMOs
In this episode of the Everything AI in Travel Podcast, I sit down with Jason Swick, a longtime Simpleview leader who spent more than 15 years deep in destination marketing before launching Swix AI.We get into:Why DMO teams have a capacity problem, a speed problem, and a knowledge problemWhy most AI adoption today is still tactical, not strategicThe real issue with tools like N8N and Make for most
Egor Karpovich built 12 AI agents in 5 weeks… …and now they’re running parts of his travel company without sleeping.
Egor Karpovich built 12 AI agents in 5 weeks……and now they’re running parts of his travel company without sleeping.In this episode of the Everything AI & Travel Podcast, I sit down with Egor Karpovich from Travel Code to unpack one of the most fascinating AI setups I’ve seen in travel so far.Egor explains how he and his team went from no-code workflows to a real agent workforce inside their bo
Everything AI in Travel chats digital identities with Robert Cole
In this episode of Everything AI & Travel, I sit down with Robert Cole (Rock Cheetah) — Cornell hotel grad, ex-Four Seasons marketing leader, Sabre/Travelocity-era hotel distribution veteran, and a longtime Phocuswright analyst.We get practical on what “AI readiness” really means for travel businesses:Why digital identity becomes the foundation for the agentic worldThe difference between trave
Everything AI in Travel chats to John Lyotier (again)!
John Lyotier is back — and we go deep on the .BOT future.AI has moved from “tools” to agents, and John’s building at the sharp end: hundreds of AI-built travel brands, an agentic network underneath, and now a big bet on .bot domains (trip.bot, hotels.bot, ski.bot…).We talk:Why .bot could become the identity layer for agent-to-agent commerceWhat “agentic search” means for travel distributionGEO/AEO
Everything AI in Travel chats to Jason Bryant from Oracle
This week I’m joined by Jason Bryant, VP Strategy (Consumer Applications) at Oracle and founder/former CEO of Nor1.We talk about:How Nor1 started (perishable inventory + willingness-to-pay for upgrades)What changes when a startup gets absorbed into a Fortune 500 (risk profile, security standards, speed)Why the next phase of AI in hospitality is orchestration, not “the next best model”Why unified d
Did we nail our 2025 predictions? Christian Watts returns to give the 2025 prediction scorecard
Welcome to 2026 and the first episode of the year on Everything AI in Travel.As tradition now, I’m joined by returning guest Christian Watts to do something most people avoid: we revisit our predictions from last year and grade them.Christian ran our 2025 predictions through an AI scoring system (he swears he didn’t rig it), and we go point-by-point on what actually happened:Search changed, but Go
Education Series: The Final Tool - create an post from an image for your LinkedIn audience
Welcome to the final episode in the series on using AI to attract high value visitors and boost your career.In this wrap-up, we cover the Image-to-LinkedIn Post Creator, a tool designed for one simple job:upload any image (chart, infographic, screenshot, photo, even a napkin sketch) and instantly generate a structured, high-engagement LinkedIn post you can copy and paste.We stay consistent with th
Education Series: Use AI to become a top voice on LinkedIn
In Episode 9 of the “9 AI Tools to Attract High-Value Visitors” series, we review a powerful outreach tool designed for professional growth and B2B partnerships: the LinkedIn Top Voice Post Creator AI.This AI is trained on the structure and quality patterns used by LinkedIn Top Voices — creators whose posts consistently perform at a high level and are recognised by LinkedIn as trusted, influential
Education Series - AI that helps you become the social media expert
In this episode of the “9 Free AI Tools to Attract High-Value Visitors” series, we enter the Outreach phase of the framework and review one of the most practical tools for organic growth: the Social Media Expert AI.This AI is designed to transform long-form destination content (blog posts, itineraries, guides, articles) into ready-to-post social content — single viral posts or full multi-day campa
AI to empower the people who serve tourists
In Episode 7 of the “9 AI Tools to Attract High-Value Visitors” series, we introduce a different kind of AI: the How-To Articles Writer (Educational AI) — a tool designed specifically to help DMO teams, tour operators, and tourism stakeholders understand and overcome real, everyday professional challenges.Unlike the previous tools in this series, this AI is not about external promotion. It’s about
What happens when a hardcore real-estate operator, fund manager, and property manager rebuilds a vacation rental PMS from the ground up with AI at the core?
In this episode of the Everything AI in Travel podcast, we dive deep into the vacation rental world and the fast-changing landscape of property management systems (PMS) with guest Shahar, founder of Boom, an AI-native operating system for vacation rental managers.From Miami, Shahar shares how he went from doing hundreds of millions in real-estate deals to “accidentally” building a vacation rental
Education Series: Your guest has arrived. Now what?
In Episode 6 of the “9 Free AI Tools to Attract High-Value Visitors” series, we review one of the most practical tools in the entire framework: the Self-Guided Tour Creator AI — built to help you create real, walkable, time-logical itineraries your visitors can use on the ground once they’re already in your destination.This tool sits in the “content” phase of the framework, but unlike inspirationa
What if AI didn’t keep us on screens… but actually got us together in real life more often?
In this episode of the Everything AI in Travel podcast (now sitting in the top 3 travel-technology podcasts on Apple Podcasts), Tony sits down with Healy 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.We dig into Healy’s wild founder journey — from growing up in Saudi Arabia, to selling
Education Series: The Blogger AI
In this episode of the “9 Free AI Tools to Attract High-Value Visitors” series, we move from strategy into content creation and I walk you through the Travel Blogger AI—a free tool that turns your destination expertise into long-form, inspirational blog articles designed to attract your ideal travelers.You’ll see step-by-step how the tool:Fits into the 4-phase framework: Strategize → Intelligence
Agentic Commerce - AI reshaping the marketplace
AI generated summary of McKinsey's latest report into agentic commerce for those who don't want to read the full 27 pages
Educational Series: Statistical Forecasting With AI for Tourism — Episode 4 of the Nine Tools to Attract High-Value Visitors
Welcome back to Episode 4 of our Nine Tools to Attract High-Value Visitors & Future-Proof Your Career With AI series.If you’ve made it this far, you’re already ahead of most people in the travel industry.Today, we dive into one of the most practical and operationally valuable AI tools in Santiago’s suite: the Statistical Forecasting AI.Whether you’re a DMO, hotel, tour operator, attraction, ai
Everything AI in Travel chats to Aimee Armstrong from Altitude AI
In this episode of Everything AI in Travel, I’m joined by Aimee Armstrong, co-founder of Altitude AI, an AI-native startup that’s taking on the messy, unloved world of corporate travel for SMEs – and breaking a few ceilings along the way. Aimee’s journey is wild: from motorcycle mechanic on Australian superbike race teams, rebuilding race engines and specialising in suspension, to product leadersh
Educational Series: Master AI Market Analysis in 15 minutes - Everything AI in Travel
If you work in travel and your company still isn’t taking AI seriously… your career might be at risk.This episode gives you a practical, real-world way to catch up fast.Today, we hand the mic to Dr. Santiago Rodriguez — educator, PhD, and creator of a suite of free AI tools built specifically for travel professionals, tourism boards, and small businesses.In just 15 minutes, Santiago shows you how
Educational Series - Tool 1 - The Tourism Expert with Santiago Rodriguez PHD
On today's episode of our new and FREE educational series to help everyone get up to speed on AI, instructor Santiago takes us into the first tool - The Tourism Expert.The Tourism Expert is a custom GPT which you can access for FREE to help you build out your initial strategy for your business. Santiago takes you step by step on exactly how you use this tool to build an actionable 3 month plan
Education Series: Everything AI in Travel + Santiago Rodriguez teach you what you need to know about AI in her Travel industry
In this first episode of our new education series, educator Santiago Rodriguez PHD takes us through exactly what this FREE course entails, how you can use it and where to find the tools.The aim of this education series is to help your business attract high value visitors and boost your career if you are an employee.www.santiagor.com/free-ai-tools
Introducing the new FREE AI educational series with Santiago Rodriguez PHD
Welcome to this introduction to our new educational series on AI in Travel.Quite frankly we are concerned. A recent EY study found only 29% of employees in billion dollar companies believe they have been given sufficient education in how to work with AI and AI agents.We suspect that number is about 10% in travel and even less in SMB's. Those in that 29% are set to jump to the head of the promo
AI in Travel talks to Claire Robinson from Region Lovers
Claire Robinson is building a data powerhouse to pair with generative AI from her base in regional France.What started as a need for more granular information in her own travels has grown into a sophisticated system to collect all manner of data that nowhere else.Hear how Claire, who comes from a scientific background, is using that data to provide grounded AI outputs that can beat the competitio
Everything AI in Travel chats to. Mennan Yelkenci from BookedAI
Mennan Yelkenci isn’t waiting for someone else to solve the big consumer opportunity in travel + AI. He is building the solution. This is an episode about taking big swings for wins.
Chatting to Alex Bainbridge, the mad scientist of Tours & Activities
I always love catching up with Alex Bainbridge. Not only is he the number one member of the Everything AI in Slack community but the way he looks at and conceives (rather than perceives - this man is a doer, not a watcher) the world is just so different to most of us.I therefore jumped at the chance to co-host a session at the upcoming Arival event in Washington DC with Alex where anyone who has t
AI podcast unpacking the McKinsey report into AI agents in travel
The McKinsey report into the impact of AI agents in travel runs at 47 pages.Only the truly dedicated are reading that one.For the rest of us - here is a podcast made by AI about AI using NotebookLM to get the jist of what is in the report.
Everything AI in Travel talks to Amir Mohajer on the ups and downs of an AI startup in Travel
I saw a post by Amir Mohajer of HostAI on LinkedIn that stopped me in my tracks.Amir posted about how the chase of shiny new objects in the AI landscape nearly killed his entire business.Whilst the business survived, there were casualties, including Amir's two co-founders. This story is a warning and a celebration all rolled up into one.
Everything AI in Travel chats to Richard Savoie about AI's impact on logistics, planning and travel
Richard Savoie from Adiona is a patent-holding executive and engineer that is currently reinventing urban mobility, logistics, and transport planning. His company Adiona is an award-winning AI-powered delivery route planning and optimization platform for large fleets, currently powering millions of deliveries globally for the world's best brands like Coca-Cola, Amazon, Australia Post, Marley Spoon
This hotelier has derived 10's of millions of dollars in returns to his business with AI already
This week I chatted with Tata Crocombe. Tata is a hotelier in the remote Cook Islands but he is not letting his remote location hold back his advancement with AI.In one of the most remarkable conversations I've had since starting this podcast journey, Tata takes us through how going all in on AI has completely transformed not only hotel operations, but also the hotels fortunes.Whilst many still gr
Everything AI in Travel breaks down AI overviews with Seth Borko of Skift & Jared Alster of Dune7
AI is disrupting search as we've known it. Recently Skift in conjunction with Dune& & SEO Clarity did a deep dive into what was happening here and what it means for every business in travel.We sit down with two of the co-researchers here, Seth Borko and Jared Alster to dig deeper into what is happening here and what businesses need to be considering as a result.We also have special off
Everything AI in Travel chats to Gabby Gonzalez-Bux from Tango about what personalisation really means in travel
Gabby Gonzalez-Bux is one of the OG female founders of the AI + Travel space.Tango is personalised booking platform for the mass affluent traveller. Gabby had leant on her experience from building digital experiences in cruise industry (where people sail on ships, not boats!!) to give her the grounding around what great curation looks like.We dive deep on what personalisation actually is and how A
Everything AI in Travel talks open source with Stu Waldron of the Open Travel Alliance
Square pegs and round holes is how we've cobbled together the travel industry over 3 or so decades online.Actually chatting to Stu Waldron of the Open Travel Alliance, it goes right back to the 70's.Stu breaks down all things open source in travel for us. We talk about why many things are not a competitive advantage and therefore there is no reason to try and build your own new wheel and e
Everything AI in Travel chats to Jason Cincotta from Kismet about getting discovered by AI agents
Jason Kismet is a man working his way from the inside of the hotel industry to the outside of travel technology .Jason is solving problem he and his teams feel personally and intimately everyday.His business, Kismet is at the cutting edge of helping his fellow hoteliers, especially those special independents, at getting discovered in the new mode of search - AI agents.In this episode we talk both
Everything AI in Travel chats to Gam Dias, the man who literally wrote the book on AI agents
Gam Dias is at the leading edge of Agentic Commerce—where digital wallets, personal data, and AI agents converge.He is the author of the book Agents Unleashed and has used travel as a core case study in much of his research and examples.We sat down with Gam to break it all down for us as to why AI agents are such a transformation shift in commerce and what it means for travel specifically. Not one
Everything AI in Travel chats to Michael J. Goldrich about Hotels + AI
Michael Goldrich knows the hotel marketing business inside out. From digital marketing roles with Starwood, Dolce and Wyndham among others, Michael has learned the trade on the floor.Now Michael is one of the core leading voices in the hotels industry in why and how AI can be applied to gain an advantage.We spoke to Michael as he prepared for his upcoming keynote at HITEC in Indianapolis in the we
Everything AI in Travel chats to Luke Bujarski about Airbnb's move into services
Luke Bujarski has had research roles at PhocusWright & Skift before moving on to found Extenteam and now Jethire.Luke is used to breaking things down and taking a look inside so we caught up this week to talk about how Airbnb's move into services may have been accelerated by AI advancements.We also dive into the jobs market and how that might be being affected by the US slow down in tourism an
Everything AI in Travel chats to Mike Todasco about AI content creation
Mike Todasco is the former Senior Director of Innovation at Paypal and is now a Visiting Fellow at the James Silberrad Brown Center for Artificial Intelligence at SDSU.Mike is at the forefront of education around AI and spends a lot time trying out the new tools and explaining their capabilities and flaws to help the rest of us know whether we should invest our time, and for what specific purpose.
Everything AI in Travel chats to Jeremy Jauncey from Beautiful Destinations & askLAYLA
Jeremy Jauncey is busy guy. He is founder of not one, but two incredible businesses in travel.One is the B2B, Beautiful Destinations which started out just as an Instagram account and has transformed into what Fast Company has called one of the most innovative businesses in the world.The other at Layla is B2C and is leveraging the power of AI to completely redefine the customer journey as we've kn
Everything AI in Travel chats to David Amsellem from the Luxurist
David Amsellem has already succeeded once before with an exit to Accor for his first concierge startup, John Paul.When generative AI came online, David couldn't sit back and not bring this superpower into a new version of concierge, this time in the travel distribution landscape.David has partnered with the HBX Group in a joint venture and launch the new Luxurist platform so that travel adviso
Everything AI in Travel chats to Mike Coletta from Phocuswright
Phocuswright have dropped a huge trends report on the effect of AI across travel and made it available free to everyone.I chat to author Mike Coletta about the findings in the report on areas like business operations, marketing, in-destination experience and of course, distribution!The report also raises the question around digital identity and how that interfaces with generative AI and how that c
Everything AI in Travel chats to Greg Oates from GuideGeek
Greg Oates is a legend in the DMO world.Many people know Greg from his work with Skift but since moving out of journalism, Greg has worked agency side specialising in working with CEO's and the C-suite at DMO's on their strategy.Recently Greg moved to Matador Network's Guide Geek as Director of AI Advocacy and is doubling down on educating decision makers on both why and how AI adoptio
Everything AI in Travel chats to Adrian Villabruna of Videreo
Hands up if you've ever rolled your eyes when someone mentioned influencer marketing? This one is for you.Today's guest is my co-founder at Videreo, Adrian Villabruna but this isn't some kind of love fest about our own product.Adrian was one of the very first to build anything with generative AI in Travel at AI Adventures and brings a complex web of knowledge from his time doing product classifica
Everything AI in Travel chats to Ed Morris from Equator AI
Ed Morris is doing extraordinary things with big data & AI. And he is doing it for a good reason.
One of the most surprising things to come out of the AI boom is how few people are thinking about how it can solve the big pressing issues we prefer to pretend don't exist: Overtourism; Carbon; Leakage and many more.
Ed from Equator AI takes us through how his early work with USAID gave him both
Everything AI in Travel - SEO special with Kevin Indig from Hypergrowth Partners
Kevin Indig is a legend in the SEO industry.
His resume speaks for itself with stints at Spotify, G2, Atlassian as well as being a growth advisor for businesses such as Snap, Reddit, NextDoor and Dropbox to name just a few.
In this episode we talk about Kevin's recent deep dive into the travel industry, how TripAdvisor have doubled their organic traffic with AI summaries and what might be comin
Everything AI in Travel - the (almost) 100% created by AI edition
Today we've got something really different and special for you because today's podcast is almost 100 percent brought to you by AI.
Everything except for the little piece I'm recording now has been made by AI. Everything from the introduction song, the little piece that introduced me just before this, the cover art, and the entire podcast itself has all been created 100 percent by AI.
So we sp
Welcome to 2025 with Christian Watts & 10 AI predictions
Welcome to the New Year and the start of Series 2 of the Everything AI in Travel podcast. We expect it to be a big one in the AI + Travel world.
For an Everything AI in Travel first, we have a return guest for the first time in the podcast history. Christian Watts, founder of Magpie.ai and AI pundit has returned for the new year to give his predictions for what we might see in the year ahead.
H
Everything AI in Travel - REWIND with Barb Hyman from Sapia.ai
This chat with Barb Hyman from Sapia.ai was a real eye opener for me.
For this episode we moved away from strictly looking at travel and moved into the operational area of HR and hiring, relevant to all businesses and industries.
The impressive thing about Barb Hyman is she is not looking to simply accelerate existing processes but instead rethink the process, starting with the end goal and wor
Everything AI in Travel - REWIND with Anna Jaffe from Mobi
I was astounded one day when on LinkedIn to see that I was a second degree connection to Barak Obama. I couldn't see how that was possible - but it all had to do with Anna Jaffe.
Anna runs one of the most innovative businesses in AI and Travel and has a long history of trying to solve really hard problems for very important organisations, including the US Government.
I shouldn't really have a fa
Everything AI in Travel - REWIND with Mark Phillips of Nomad Stays
Mark Phillips is a digital nomad and yet in 2024 he found himself on the French President's private jet and being talked about in high level delegations between France and Serbia.
And he isn't French, he's Australian.
Join us for this fascinating tale that takes us through the French Tech Visa process right onto the President's private jet.
Oh there is a fair bit of AI stuff too.
Everything AI in Travel - REWIND with Adam Stoker from TourismIQ
In this episode we go deep into the world of Destination Marketing Organizations with Adam Stoker.
Adam has many touchpoints with DMO's. He runs the Relic Agency where most of the clients are in the DMO camp but in 2024 Adam decided to build a digital town square for knowledge sharing across the DMO world, TourismIQ.
Really love the story about how a DMO decided to focus on experiences for famil
NEW Episode - Jessie Fischer from GuestOS
Jessie Fischer grew up in the hotels business and now using that lifetime of knowledge to bend AI into a shape that can serve guests better, unlock new revenue opportunities for accommodation providers and make their lives easier.
What Jessie is building has really caught the attention of the travel tech world. In an unprecedented scene, we saw another founder of an AI company who has raised a l
Everything AI in Travel - REWIND with Jason Halberstadt from MyTrip.ai
On this episode Jason Halberstadt joined us all the way Quito, Ecuador.
Jason gave the low down on how his business had evolved from a long-standing marketing agency for small tourism business and taken the new AI capabilities to create something special specifically for this market.
A great example of specialising both regionally and at a specific ICP that was already well known, including thei
Everything AI in Travel - REWIND with Varun Gupta from Pathfndr
AI is a global phenomenon but also a regionalised opportunity.
On this episode I caught up with Varun Gupta who was having some great early success in the Indian market. helping entrenched travel companies like Thomas Cook take early advantage of the power of generative AI.
Gupta's Pathfndr business uses AI to create dynamic packages within travel agent systems so they can essentially sell prett
Everything AI in Travel - REWIND with Janette Roush from NYC Tourism
Janette Roush is the leading voice for AI and Destination Marketing.
That is now 100% official as since we recorded this edition of the podcast, Janette landed the role of SVP, Innovation and Chief AI Officer at Brand USA.
Janette tells it how it is, in simple language so that everyone can easily understand & follow along to get started on their own AI journey.
Making the complex, seem simp
Everything AI in Travel - REWIND with Gilad Berenstein of Brook Bay Capital
Gilad Berenstein holds a unique place in travel planning world.
Gilad is not just another talking head commentator but seasoned veteran as the founder of UTrip - an early iteration of this genre which has exploded with AI.
Now Gilad holds a position of whether to put venture money towards these and other AI ideas as well as being on the board of Virtuoso and a thoughtful commentator on all happ
NEW EPISODE: Everything AI in Travel chats to Travis Pittman from TourRadar
In this brand new episode we talk to one of the pioneers of bringing the OTA model to the multi-day tour market in Travis Pittman from TourRadar.
I wanted to talk Travis because TourRadar is not an AI native business but it absolutely is an AI forward business.
I had heard stories of how Travis had spearheaded a culture within the business around exploration and experimentation with AI and wante
Everything AI in Travel - REWIND with Cat Jones from Byway Travel
Generative AI could play a massive role in bringing sustainable travel options mainstream.
Unfortunately like most things sustainable travel, there are a lot of people talking about it and not many people actually doing something about it.
Cat Jones isn't one of those. She is a powerhouse of action and utilising AI to solve complex logistical problems that make it easier for all us to make more
Everything AI in Travel - REWIND with Stephanie Daniel from Legends
In this REWIND we talk about the hot button topic of personalisation with AI.
Stephanie Daniel from Legends isn't just theorising about the possibilities, rather she and her team are building the pieces needed for this to become a reality.
Generative AI can absolutely tweak each piece of consumer content making it specific and relevant to the user. However it needs to know who that user is and
Everything AI in Travel - REWIND with Brennen Bliss from Propellic
Brennen Bliss and his Propellic Marketing are a force in travel SEO and digital marketing world.
In this REWIND episode Brennen breaks down what those in travel need to know about he impact of AI on how marketing can and will work in the future.
Brennen doesn't pull any punches and his customer's results seems to tell the story for him.
Everything AI in Travel - REWIND with Andy Moss from Mindtrip
All my guests are inspirational in my eyes but I think, publicly at least, it was this conversation with the CEO of the hottest AI startup in travel, Andy Moss from Mindtrip that really got people interested and noticing this little podcast venture.
And Andy didn't disappoint bringing his huge brain and vast experience to the table to lay it all out for us.
Andy is one of 12 co-founders in the
Everything AI in Travel REWIND with Susan Barry chatting all things AI & Hotels
In this REWIND episode from early in 2024, I really wanted to niche down to the Hotel industry specifically and find out what might be happening in that particular sector of the travel industry.
I got Susan Barry from the Top Floor Podcast, one of my favourites, because Susan had previously chatted to many innovators in accommodation who were leveraging AI on behalf of the sector.
Susan gives us
Everything AI in Travel - REWIND with Connor Wilson from Pilot
The explosion of AI trip planners was one of the core characteristics of the early generative AI boom.
In this REWIND we talk to one of those early founders, Connor Wilson from Pilot. Actually, by the time in early 2024 we had this chat, AI Trip Planners were starting to go the way of chatbots in the way they could induce a collective eyeroll from the travel tech audience.
Whether through featur
Everything AI in Travel - REWIND with John Lyotier from Travelai.com
In this REWIND we go back to the chat with John Lyotier from Travelai.com
Travelai.com have been forerunner in creating a cash flowing business from leveraging generative AI. There aren't too many others out there in travel who can say that, even less who are actually touching the consumer.
Beyond that, John is one of the really big thinkers in the Travel + AI world. He is the guy playing chess
Everything AI in Travel - REWIND with Eduardo Schuch from Tailbox
In this REWIND we look back on the chat with Eduardo Schuch, co-founder at the hot AI startup, Tailbox.
Tailbox came spinning out of MIT with smart people and money secured to see what they could bring to the new AI driven market in travel.
With no-one from travel on the initial team, this was a real outsiders view of what is possible, not worrying about what is not.
Everything AI in Travel - REWIND with Kim Bennett from Atlas Guru
In this REWIND episode we caught up with our first female founder in the AI + space, Kim Bennett.
Kim is building Atlas Guru, an AI tool for the travel advisor industry to help streamline the process of building out a complex bespoke itinerary and getting a comprehensive and beautifully presented offer in front of a client.
Whilst much of the attention (as usual) is focused on consumer apps in t
Everything AI in Travel - REWIND with Dan Flores from Satisfi Labs
The very first episode for the year of 2024 looked at the subject everyone was thinking about, contemplating or actively working towards - chat bots!
I spoke to Dan (The Man) Flores from Satisfi Labs who were well ahead of the curve on this one having built out their own native AI pre the release of open generative AI capabilities.
The chat bot is much maligned, partly because of the poor output
Everything AI in Travel - REWIND with Christian Watts from Magpie.ai
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