HeyJaredEverything AI in Travel
In this companion podcast to the Everything AI in Travel weekly newsletter, we speak to the makers, shapers and buyers of AI technology in the travel inustry.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 7
- Latest publication
- Sep 23, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Aug 3, 2026
Latest episodes
What does it take to build a travel startup that gets acquired by one of the biggest B2B travel technology companies in the world? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
In this episode of the Everything AI in Travel podcast, I speak with Amit Shamni, founder of Bridgify, about building a technology layer for one of travel’s most fragmented categories — tours, activities and experiences — and the journey that ultimately led to Bridgify being acquired by HBX Group. Amit started with a simple observation: booking flights and hotels online was easy, but finding and booking everything you actually do once you arrive was still incredibly fragmented. Bridgify set out
What if the biggest thing holding multi-day tours back isn’t demand — but infrastructure? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
In this episode of the Everything AI in Travel podcast, I speak with Thomas Bangert, founder of Travecta, about building the connectivity layer he believes multi-day travel has been missing. Thomas has spent 26 years in travel, including more than a decade at lastminute.com, followed by roles with TripAdvisor and Amadeus, consulting work with companies including Sojern and PerfectStay, and time with Exoticca. Travecta is now his fourth startup. The idea for Travecta came from trying to build ano
What if the biggest problem in hotel booking isn’t finding a hotel — but finding one that actually works for you? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
In this episode of the Everything AI in Travel podcast, I speak with Vadym Klymov, founder and CEO of WinWin Travel, about using AI to solve one of travel’s surprisingly stubborn problems: personalization. Vadym comes at the problem from firsthand experience. He spent 12 years in hospitality in Ukraine, growing from renting out his grandparents’ four-room summer house to operating his own 48-room guesthouse and working with a 98-room hotel. He was preparing to develop a 300-room property when th
What happens when AI agents stop just planning travel and start actually booking it? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
In this episode of the Everything AI in Travel podcast, I catch up with Kevin Gautier , CEO and founder of Jinko — almost exactly one year after we first spoke about what he was building. Kevin is a four-time travel founder whose journey has taken him from video travel reviews and NDC aggregation to a Gen Z flight app that reached #2 in the French App Store, a stint helping build Hopper in Europe, and now Jinko. And Jinko has evolved significantly. Originally conceived as a consumer travel app i
What does hotel revenue management look like when AI moves from simply analysing the data to actually telling you what to do next? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
In this episode of the **Everything AI in Travel podcast**, I speak with Faisal Murtaza, founder of Sarucci, about how AI is changing one of the most data-heavy — and commercially important — functions inside a hotel. Faisal has worked across hotel operations, revenue management and distribution since 2011, managing everything from boutique properties to portfolios of 11 hotels and 3,000 rooms. Now he’s turning that experience into AI-powered revenue intelligence tools. We dig into: 🏨 What a hot
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.