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How to Build for Travel’s Agentic Future

Executive Brief
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Travel industry leadership is prioritizing the integration of AI agents despite a lack of specific implementation frameworks. Strategic development must shift from conceptual interest to technical execution to meet upcoming operational demands.
- 01Chief executives are uniformly focused on delegating complex travel tasks to autonomous AI agents
- 02Current industry discussions lack technical detail regarding the actual deployment of agentic workflows
- 03Firms must transition from broad AI vision to building functional infrastructure for agentic systems
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The Corporate Travel Management Guide →AI-generated summary · Verify at source
Almost every travel brand CEO at Skift Global Forum touched on what they want AI agents to do. Fewer talked about how they expect it to work.