Agentic AI – The Single Biggest Impact Of AI On Hospitality

Hospitality is on the edge of its next great transformation, and this time it is not mobile driving the change. It is AI. Just look at the numbers. In April 2025, ChatGPT recorded over five billion visits, while traffic to Google declined. This shift marks more than a trend. It signals a complete rethinking of how travel is researched, planned, and booked.

Max Starkov

Transitioning hospitality from Mobile-first to AI-first will be the greatest transformation of our industry since the advent of the Internet. For all the doubters, look at the data: in April of 2025, ChatGPT reached 5.14 billion visits, up 182% from a year ago, while visits to Google declined by 3.2% (Similarweb).

Within this AI transformation, I believe Agentic AI will have the single biggest impact on our industry.

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Max Starkov is a hospitality and travel technologist and digital strategist with 40 years of experience in hospitality technology and digital marketing, hotel online distribution and revenue management, hotel CRM and branding strategies.

Founded in 1994 in Maastricht, the Netherlands, Hospitality Net is the #1 B2B portal for global hotel professionals and one of the longest-running independent hospitality B2B publications in the world. Hospitality Net acts as a neutral broker and publisher of hotel business information, built on a membership model for all stakeholders in the global hotel industry.