About The AI Travel Brief
AI is moving fast. Most coverage of it is either too broad to be useful or too technical to be actionable. AITB exists in the gap.
AI Travel Brief is a short-form industry briefing for travel professionals — the people actually building, selling, and operating travel: airlines, hotels, OTAs, GDS companies, property managers, hosts, travel tech teams. Every episode takes one or two AI developments that are making noise and does the work of translating them into something you can use. What actually happened. What the trade press got right and what it missed. What it means for your corner of the industry.
The show is editorial, not promotional. There are no sponsored segments, no vendor talking points, no "exciting partnership announcements." If a company did something interesting, we cover it. If the coverage around it was overblown, we say that too.
It publishes when there's something worth saying — not on a fixed schedule. Some weeks that's every day. Some weeks it's twice. The bar isn't the calendar. It's whether there's a story worth your time.
The format is deliberate. A cold open that names the news. A handful of headlines for context. Then a main story that goes deeper — frames the conventional take, complicates it, and lands somewhere specific. The goal is to sound like a well-informed colleague who did the reading, not a news anchor who has to fill twenty-two minutes regardless of what happened.
If you work in travel and you're trying to figure out what AI actually means for your business — not in theory, but right now — this is the briefing.
About the host
Boris Pavlov is the host of AI Travel Brief — a short-form show covering the AI news shaping travel, explained from the perspective of someone who is actively involved in the industry.
Over the past decade, Boris has worked on both sides of travel technology: first as the co-founder of a vacation rental operator that scaled to thousands of properties across multiple markets and ended up getting acquired by a private equity firm, and now as the co-founder and CEO of OnSeason, a company building infrastructure for AI-powered travel distribution.
He is not a journalist, analyst, or consultant. His perspective comes from operating real travel businesses, evaluating technology under real-world pressure, and watching firsthand how AI is changing the way travel is discovered, sold, and managed.
AI Travel Brief started as a series of internal AI briefings Boris did for his team. The goal was simple: cut through the noise, separate real opportunities from hype, and help travel professionals understand which shifts actually matter.
Part of the OnSeason family
The AI Travel Brief is a standalone publication that shares DNA with OnSeason. Editorially independent — same operator-first instinct.
Get in touch
Story tips, corrections, and guest pitches: hello@aitravelbrief.com
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