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Booking.com built agentic AI before ’agents’ existed: Here’s how it scaled with small models for speed, big models for trust

Booking.com began experimenting with conversational recommendations and tool driven automation before most enterprises had a name for agentic systems, and that early start is now shaping a more measured strategy. In a VentureBeat podcast, AI product...

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Agentic AI for travel heats up as Google preps booking tools

Google is preparing to introduce agentic AI tools that can actually book hotels and flights directly within its AI Mode search experience, moving beyond simple trip inspiration and information. Working closely with major hotel and OTA partners like ...

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Why capsule hotels are taking global cities by storm
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Why capsule hotels are taking global cities by storm

It may sound like an oxymoron, but the biggest capsule hotel in the world has just opened in central London. The Zedwell, in Piccadilly Circus, offers 1,000 sound-proofed, windowless ‘cocoons’, with prices from as little as £30 a night. A raft of ot...

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All aboard Rome’s new hotel inspired by the Orient Express
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All aboard Rome’s new hotel inspired by the Orient Express

When he began to reimagine Rome’s Fonseca Palace hotel as the new Orient Express La Minerva, architect Hugo Toro knew he would break at least one rule. “I hate orchids. I don’t understand when hotels put them everywhere,” he says. “Orchids have just...

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