Skift Daily Briefing Airlines Deploy AI, Airbnb Expands Hotels, IHG Rebuilds for Bots
U.S. airlines detail how AI is reshaping daily operations, Airbnb signals hotels are now a core growth strategy, and IHG overhauls its data systems so AI agents can better surface and sell its properties.
On today’s Skift Daily Briefing, Sarah Dandashy breaks down how AI is moving from back-end efficiency to customer-facing decisions, why Airbnb is positioning itself as a full-spectrum lodging platform, and how structured, machine-readable hotel content may determine which brands stay visible in an AI-driven search world.
This episode is presented by Lodgify!
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Airbnb’s Hotel Strategy Is Now Much Bigger
IHG Overhauls Its Hotel Data for AI Agents
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