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Expedia's "Agentic Commerce" Bet Means Your Direct Booking Strategy Just Got More Complicated

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Feb 23

Expedia's "Agentic Commerce" Bet Means Your Direct Booking Strategy Just Got More Complicated

Expedia is rebuilding its platform around AI agents that book travel on behalf of guests, cutting humans out of the search-and-compare loop entirely. If you're an independent operator who spent the last five years investing in direct booking, you need to understand what this means before the agents start making decisions your guests used to make.

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Rav Patel 3 min read · Feb 23