Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Booking Holdings wrote Kayak down. Now it’s sending the brand to look for work in corporate travel.
The founders left to build Booking Holdings’ AI bet, and this week the Kayak brand reappeared with a chatbot, hunting a defensible corner in corporate travel Jul 29, 2026 by Markus Busch The announcement. Kayak for Business added AI this week — natural-language trip-building, a chatbot that answers itinerary questions and books inside company policy,…
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Amex GBT put business travel’s AI inside Claude — and got the agent that actually books
Amex GBT wired the whole booking — air and hotel, in policy — into Claude, while the consumer chatbots still only recommend Jul 29, 2026 by Markus Busch The tell is which AI they picked. American Express Global Business Travel put Egencia’s agentic future inside Claude, the assistant enterprises run their work in — not…
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Amazon’s Alexa+ can finally close the booking in a chat — because it owns the wallet, not the room
Amazon revived its Wallet and aimed 180 million Prime members’ stored cards at booking travel in a chat — the checkout ChatGPT and Google still can’t close Jul 29, 2026 by Markus Busch The part everyone else backed away from. Amazon just built the piece of agentic travel its rivals couldn’t: the checkout. Alexa+ adopted…
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We keep winning. Nothing changes.
The parity clause is dead. Booking is a designated gatekeeper. Google has been fined €460 million over hotel search. Three wins for the industry, and not one of them put a guest back in your hands. Jul 29, 2026 by Markus Busch The message from your association probably had an exclamation mark in the subject…
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IHG launched AI search and a new content platform its hotels must feed to be found
The search is live in a US beta; the content platform arrives over the coming months, and hotels will have to feed it floor plans, video, and current photos to be found Jul 29, 2026 by Markus Busch Driving the news. IHG switched on AI conversational search in a US beta this week, on IHG.com…
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Sonder Revived: Vancouver’s TravelAI Acquires Iconic Brand Name
TravelAI™, an UpNext company based in Vancouver, has acquired the Sonder name from bankruptcy proceedings, indicating the brand’s return in some capacity. This acquisition marks a new chapter for Sonder, suggesting potential revitalization or transformation under new ownership.
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You count wholesale as a win. Some of it is a room you already had.
Every wholesale room-night lands in the occupancy report as a win. Some were guests you’d never have reached; the rest were rooms you’d have sold anyway — and telling them apart is the whole difference between using this channel and leaning on it. Jul 27, 2026 by Markus Busch Three pieces in this series have…
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Sabre made your rooms readable by AI agents, not recommended by them
Two million hotels are readable inside Sabre’s platform, and an agent chooses between them on the room descriptions, photos and rates loaded the day you connected Jul 27, 2026 by Markus Busch The pipe already shipped. While the industry argued about whether AI would ever reach hotel booking, Sabre wired it. On September 23, 2025,…
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China just made Trip.com pay hotels back.
China’s market regulator fined Trip.com 5.2 billion yuan, made it refund the deposits it withheld from hotels, and barred it from forcing them into exclusive deals — something no Booking or Expedia fine in the West has ever done Jul 27, 2026 by Markus Busch Driving the news. On Saturday, July 25, China’s market regulator…
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