Travel Has Launchitis, and I May Have Caught It

I'm developing launchitis. It comes from trying to keep up with all the travel apps, agents, assistants and concierges being introduced to improve my life. I understand each announcement while I'm reading it. Then another arrives, and I have to remind myself which one I was interested in. Booking Holdings launched Lola in late September. On October 14, Vayo arrived in private beta, with Booking planning to invest $100 million. This is alongside AI work at Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, and Kayak. Somewhere inside Booking Holdings, I assume there's a very useful chart. Muse and Instinct have made travel a use case for their general assistants. Francis Davidson, the co-founder of Sonder, introduced Odessia in June. Our Skift Take began: “Anot