Airbnb Rethinks AI, Brands Move Into Safari, Spain’s Tourism Reckoning, Hospitality’s Human Premium

Podcast: This Week in Hospitality · thisweekinhospitality

Opublikowano: 2026-05-15

This week, the guys trace one tension running through travel right now: everyone wants scale, but nobody wants the experience to feel scaled. Airbnb opens the conversation with Brian Chesky admitting what most travel CEOs won’t say out loud: AI still hasn’t figured out travel. The panel digs into why chatbots don’t solve discovery, why travel planning is visual, emotional, and often multiplayer — and why the best AI in hospitality may be the stuff guests never see. Then the conversation moves to safari, where Auberge joins the growing list of lu...