Travel spending remains one of the last things consumers cut. Emotionally, holidays are protected. Commercially, the conditions around that resilience are under real strain. Shifting search behaviour, rising operating costs and a booking journey that was already fragile before AI started rewriting the rules of discovery have all combined to make this one of the more challenging trading environments the sector has faced.
The leaders in our room are not panicking. But they are making hard decisions about where to focus, and several of the assumptions that underpinned travel marketing strategy for the last decade are no longer holding.
Travel spending remains one of the last things consumers cut. Emotionally, holidays are protected. Commercially, the conditions around that resilience are under real strain. Shifting search behaviour, rising operating costs and a booking journey that was already fragile before AI started rewriting the rules of discovery have all combined to make this one of the more challenging trading environments the sector has faced.
The leaders in our room are not panicking. But they are making hard decisions about where to focus, and several of the assumptions that underpinned travel marketing strategy for the last decade are no longer holding.
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