Oakley's City Council voted 4-0 on Aug. 11 to introduce a pilot program allowing up to 10 short-term rental units in the Downtown Specific Plan area along Main Street, reducing the initial proposal of…
TravelAI, a Canadian AI travel company, purchased the Sonder brand and relaunched Sonder.com, though the deal did not include Sonder properties or its operating business. CEO John Lyotier said the bra…
Expedia Group CEO Ariane Gorin said artificial intelligence presents a growth opportunity rather than a threat to online travel agencies, despite the company acknowledging agentic AI as a competitive …
Vrbo, the Expedia Group-owned vacation rental platform, is using generative AI alongside first-party booking and search data to create localised summer travel marketing campaigns tailored to regional …
Vrbo's new AI-based candidate generation pipeline, using a large language model to generate diverse semantic queries, extends coverage to long-tail vacation rental properties that traditional item-bas…