Travel Tech Essentialist
Mauricio PrietoConnects travel to the broader forces shaping technology, capital, and human behavior.
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#210: Middlemen
Technology is supposed to kill middlemen, but travel keeps replacing one with another. A smaller plane can skip the hub. An AI agent can skip the OTA. But someone in the middle still has to aggregate the supply, take the payment and fix thi...
#209: Load-Bearing
Special thanks to Propellic for sponsoring this edition of the newsletter:
The average traveler starts with ChatGPT, not Claude - and other findings. Propellic spent a week watching U.S. travelers plan trips with AI. The 2026 State of AI...
#208: Scarcity
A flight search product that can't get the data. A bankrupt airline whose operating history is worth $10 million. Loyalty programs running out of seats to give away. Banks paying travel brands more at every renewal.
Special thanks t...
#207: Evidence
What OTA stocks are doing in the AI era, the case against AI job doom, job board conversion rates, the real cost of agentic search, and a prediction I made 20 months ago that just came true.
Special thanks to Propellic for sponsorin...
#206: Undertow
The surface reading of this World Cup, this M&A wave, this jobs data, is rarely the real one. This issue is about the currents running underneath: search spikes that won't convert, hosting that doesn't move demand, an AI jobs panic the data...
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