Tony Carne
Video is the new battleground in the “Experiences” economy
It’s official! Video is the new battleground in tours and activities. Last week GetYourGuide CEO Johannes Reck posted on LinkedIn about their fall release day, Unlocked 2024. Among some new AI productivity hacks around listing creation and language, Reck spent a full paragraph explaining GYG’s ambitions around video.…
AI in Travel: Where are we at as of September 2024
For a little over a year now, I’ve been reporting weekly on all the developments happening with AI within the travel industry. To date through the Everything AI in Travel weekly newsletter I’ve looked at over 600 different use cases from all corners of our unwieldy industry including airlines, airplanes…
Destination authenticity in the AI age is at risk
In 2003, a group of renowned comedians, previously from the D-Generation and scriptwriters of films like The Castle and The Dish, decided it might be fun to write a guide book on a country which never existed. The resulting guide to Molvania turned out to be quite the hit and…
DMO’s emerge as unlikely lynchpin to help suppliers win with AI
A recent Travel Tech Thinktank event organized by Web in Travel (WIT) in Japan has uncovered a huge opportunity for grass roots suppliers to leverage AI and fight back against a couple of decades of disintermediation caused by the rise of Online Travel Agents (OTA’s). The presentation researched and…
Can AI lead to the rise of the DMC?
This Op-ed in Entrepreneur by ALEX GORYACHEV raised an interesting possibility about how the tactical efficiencies possible with AI could free up these businesses to move up from mere operators of other people’s product to taking their own place amongst the ranks of consumer brands. Goryachev argues; “take Destination Management Companies,…