Travel Tech Podcast
Informal hallway track conversations with industry pioneers exploring the intersection of AI, aviation, and travel technology.
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Real Travelers, Real Footage, Four Times the Clicks
Your passengers are already filming the trip, and the brands collecting that footage will know far more than what was booked. Sally Bunnell, CEO and founder of NaviSavi, unpacks how a library of 250,000 user generated travel videos is outperforming branded and AI generated content, why authentic footage earns four times the clicks, and how airlines can trade miles for passenger video to unlock behavioural data no transaction record can capture.
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Can ChatGPT Find Your Hotel? Answer Engines, a Fleet of 17 Agents and One Rule Against AI Slop
Jascha Kaykas-Wolff
Hotels have spent a decade capturing billions of pixels of their own spaces, and the AI tools now shaping event bookings can't see any of it. Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, CEO of Visiting Media and veteran of Yahoo, Mozilla, BitTorrent, and Microsoft, unpacks how hospitality businesses can convert immersive property data into content answer engines can actually read, why data ownership is the only durable moat, and how a fleet of 17 agents is quietly transforming a 140 person company.
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About the Podcast
The Travel Tech Podcast brings you informal "hallway track" conversations with innovators, technologists, and industry leaders who are transforming how we travel. Think of it as the conversations you'd have at an industry conference — candid, insightful, and unrehearsed.
Hosted by Alex Brooker, Founder & CEO of Airside Labs.
From the team behind the podcast
Airside Labs builds working AI prototypes on your data and tests them against the edge cases of your operation. Our agent tools give Claude, ChatGPT or your own agent a catalogue of 6,700+ aviation AI use cases and aviation lookups it can trust.