TORONTO — It’s almost time for the Travel Trends AI Summit 2025, with more than 40 sessions featuring keynote speakers and live demos, all geared to everything travel and AI and all taking place over the course of two full days.
Scheduled for Oct. 28 – 29, the online event is bookended each day with morning welcomes and afternoon wrap-ups hosted by Dan Christian, founder and host, Travel Trends Podcast.
Live panels and networking are also part of the event.
Highlights on Day 1 include ‘Future-Proofing the Travel Advisor: How AI is Redefining the Role’ with Susan Black, founder and CEO of Wowzitude. Black is a travel industry veteran and former CCO of CIE Tours. Now she heads up Wowzitude, a global platform reaching 1.2 million subscribers through partnerships with museums, alumni associations, travel advisors and more.
Next up, The Travelweek Group’s own Devin Kinasz will host ‘Unleashing AI for Agents’. “Travelweek AI helps advisors save time, boost productivity and deliver personalized service – enhancing, not replacing, human connections,” says Travelweek’s publisher.
Also notable, Chris Gentilini, VP, Advisor Success at Nicer, will host ‘How Modern Advisors Launch, Grow and Cross $1M in Year One.’
There are 20 sessions on Day 1, each about 15 minutes in length. Day 2 includes 22 sessions including several panel discussions.
The first panel, ’AI in Action: Real Use Cases Transforming the Multi-Day Tour Industry’, will feature Intrepid’s President & General Manager, Christian Wolters, among others.
A second panel, ’From Booking to Lifetime Loyalty: The Triple Play of Personalization, Engagement and Retention’, includes tech pioneer Terry Jones, who founded Travelocity.com and Kayak.com.
There’s also ‘The Future for Travel Advisors, OTAs and Host Agencies’.
The last session could be an eyebrow-raiser for traditional travel advisors – especially all those who heard all the predictions of their demise by Internet back in the late 1990s, and lived to tell the tale. Tuning into ‘The Rise of the Autonomous Traveler: AI Agents and the End of Decision Fatigue’, with a look at “AI’s leap from assistant to autonomous agent, reshaping trip planning, booking and the future of travel experiences,” could help travel advisors stay prepared and on guard for the AI industry’s twists and turns when it comes to travel.
The Travel Trends AI Summit 2025 is hosted in partnership with TourRadar, and Travis Pittman, TourRadar’s founder and CEO, will host ‘The Rawthentic Future: Scaling Travel with AI Without Losing What’s Real’ on Day 2.
As Travelweek heard from Christian earlier this year, as preparations for the Oct. 28-29 event were already well underway: “At our Travel Trends AI Summit, the consensus will continue to be that AI is both a powerful tool and a catalyst for change. Rather than replacing travel advisors, AI is amplifying their value by automating repetitive tasks, streamlining research, and enabling deeper personalization. Advisors who embrace AI can focus more on building client relationships and delivering bespoke experiences, while those resistant to change may risk falling behind.”
A special offer for Travelweek readers offers the Travel Trends AI Summit’s early bird rate of US$49 right up until the first day of the event, using code TravelweekTT.
Sessions will be recorded, so if attendees miss a session, the recordings will be available at a later date.
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