A news podcast covering how AI is reshaping airlines, hotels, vacation rentals, and the travel tech stack. Ad-hoc episodes, 10–20 minutes, attribution on every fact.
with Boris Pavlov
Google's I/O event landed with a wall of announcements, but two moves stand out for travel: the Universal Cart and the quietly-released WebMCP. Together they sketch out Google's strategy for owning the agentic booking journey without becoming an OTA themselves and keeping their best advertisers happy.
Google's I/O event landed with a wall of announcements, but two moves stand out for travel: the Universal Cart and the quietly-released WebMCP. Together they sketch out Google's strategy for owning the agentic booking journey without becoming an OTA themselves and keeping their best advertisers happy.
Airbnb shipped its most ambitious product release in years — boutique hotels, car rentals, grocery delivery, and AI features across the board. Now the question is whether their approach to AI distribution will look like genius or the most expensive strategic restraint in travel tech history.
Episode 1 of the AITB Foundational Series maps the state of AI search, discovery, and distribution in 2026: the state of adoption, the rise of agentic pipelines, the 80–2 gap between executives and consumers, where TikTok and Uber stand and why corporate travel may move first, not last.
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