“If you’re Expedia or Hotels.com, your days are probably numbered.”
The speaker, Palmer Group CEO Shelly Palmer, was giving a keynote at the Association of National Advertisers’ AI and Technology for Marketers Conference in Austin, Texas, last week.
Palmer, a respected technology consultant to Fortune 500 companies, was using travel as an example of how the rapid advancement of AI agents is going to impact industries.
He went on to say that when he travels, he has very specific travel requirements: He wants to sit in rows 2 to 4, never fly at night and always get a refundable ticket. “I’m a little prince,” he said. “I like to travel how I like to travel.”
He said he sees the day coming when, if he has enabled Siri to read…
