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Everything AI in Travel

Everything AI in Travel by Tony Carne

In this companion podcast to the Everything AI in Travel weekly newsletter, we speak to the makers, shapers and buyers of AI technology in the travel inustry.

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00:33:19

What does hotel revenue management look like when AI...

Everything AI in Travel ·

2026/08/19

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 he’s turning that experience into AI-powered revenue intelligence tools.We dig into:🏨 What a hotel

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00:29:25

Oliver Green chats practical uses of AI for Tour...

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2026/08/13

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 it — connecting Claude and AI agents to booking systems, websites, Slack, Google Sheets and other parts

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00:29:10

How can travel companies turn their customers into...

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2026/08/03

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, marketing insights, and customer feedback.Veerle shares her remarkable journey from National Geographic travel

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00:22:23

Everything AI in Travel chats to Bethany Reitsma of...

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2026/05/27

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, and TripAdvisor into building a growing startup ecosystem focused on helping founders get connected, get

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00:30:46

Everything AI in Travel chats to John Taylor Garner...

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2026/04/06

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, Card CuratorWhy dynamic loyalty pricing broke the old modelHow Odynn powers travel portals, rewards, and

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00:35:53

Everything AI in travel chats to Jason Swick of...

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2026/03/24

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 tourism teams…How Swix is trying to make AI usable across every skill level in an organisationThe

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00:30:29

Egor Karpovich built 12 AI agents in 5 weeks… …and...

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2026/03/18

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 bootstrapped corporate travel SaaS business — including:A lead agent coordinating the othersLegal,

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00:33:06

Everything AI in Travel chats digital identities with...

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2026/03/03

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 traveler identity vs hospitality entity identity (hotel ≠ just a building…)Why “standards” are hard in travel

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00:33:19

Everything AI in Travel chats to John Lyotier (again)!

Everything AI in Travel ·

2026/02/18

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: what’s real, what’s hypeMarriott + Google’s AI selling moves — threat or opportunity?The coming

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00:29:26

Everything AI in Travel chats to Jason Bryant from...

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2026/02/10

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 data platforms are a prerequisite for personalizationThe real reason “AI pilots fail”: not tech, but

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00:33:43

Did we nail our 2025 predictions? Christian Watts...

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2026/01/20

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 Google didn’t dieLLMs reshaped how people plan (even if they still “Google” quick stuff)“Agentic AI”

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00:12:25

Education Series: The Final Tool - create an post...

Everything AI in Travel ·

2026/01/20

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 the series’ running use case: Germany as the source market, Ecuador as the destination, and the goal of

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00:17:36

Education Series: Use AI to become a top voice on...

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2026/01/12

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 experts. The goal is simple: help you publish authority-building LinkedIn content that attracts

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00:20:39

Education Series - AI that helps you become the...

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2026/01/04

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 campaigns — tailored to the platform you choose.In this walkthrough, we use the ongoing case study (Ecuador

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00:16:16

AI to empower the people who serve tourists

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2025/12/22

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 internal alignment, training, and capacity-building — because attracting high-value visitors also

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00:27:46

What happens when a hardcore real-estate operator,...

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2025/12/16

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 management company—then vertically integrating management, construction, cleaning, and a $50M

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00:15:25

Education Series: Your guest has arrived. Now what?

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2025/12/15

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 inspirational blog articles, this is utility content: self-guided walking tours that improve the visitor experience,

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00:30:40

What if AI didn’t keep us on screens… but actually...

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2025/12/09

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 his first startup to eBay just seven months after joining, to rolling out those touchscreen kiosks in

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00:18:46

Education Series: The Blogger AI

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2025/12/09

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 → Content → OutreachTakes your target market (in the example: German travelers 25–50), your core

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00:14:57

Agentic Commerce - AI reshaping the marketplace

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2025/12/04

AI generated summary of McKinsey's latest report into agentic commerce for those who don't want to read the full 27 pages

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