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Don't ban AI pricing—improve transparency instead Timothy O'Neil-Dunne, principal of tech consultancy T2Impact, argues that proposed AI pricing rules are misguided.

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Latest News Airbnb adds car transfers to Services The service is available in more than 125 cities across Asia, Europe and Latin America and enables guests to pre-book a car in the Airbnb app. View Ten structural shifts redefining Asia Pacific travel Some trends are already reshaping travel, while others are still emerging. View Uber acquires Blacklane to boost executive ride service Uber said the acquisition is part of its strategy to expand luxury and executive travel. View Luxury vacation rental group Eterniti raises €30 million The new capital brings the company's total funding to €50 million. View Ensuring AI benefits everyone in travel A session at ITB Berlin focused on how AI-generated direct answers and recommendations bring ethical challenges, potential regulatory issues and bias. View

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Trending Stories Fliggy launches "flyai" travel skill for AI agent workflows The plug-and-play skill enables developers to embed travel booking into AI agents without complex integration.  View Vuelo lands £56M for travel booking and payment platform The company said it plans to use the funding to build an artificial intelligence (AI)-native travel platform.  View Uber continues robotaxi push with Verne, Pony.ai partnership Uber has been aggressive in its autonomous ride efforts, announcing partnership after partnership over the last several months.  View Experience Columbus pilots AI platform to unify visitor experience across destination By deploying AI agents across local partners, the program aims to surface more accurate, real-time information drawn from first-party data.  View Monetizing inspiration and rebuilding the travel booking funnel As technology continues to connect inspiration with commerce, the early stages of the travel journey are becoming one of the most valuable places to capture demand.  View

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Latest news on travel agentic commerce Why Google will win the agentic e-commerce race and what it means for travel Google adds cart, loyalty features to UCP OpenAI's shift shows travel is too complex for quick-fix distribution AI-driven pricing and operations deliver measurable hotel gains OTAs to hand over AI pricing policy details in US House committee investigation Wyndham working across AI platforms to drive direct bookings India-based MakeMyTrip, Ixigo working with OpenAI to expand AI capabilities WebMCP offers path for travel sites to become 'agent-ready'

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