Tour operators and DMCs
Take the AI readiness assessment, run your numbers through the ROI calculator, then read The itinerary is a constraint problem.
Resources
Tools, terms and field notes for running travel with AI
Practical material from people who run trips and ship software: two self-assessment tools, a checklist for AI-agent distribution, a working glossary, developer docs and our Field Notes blog. All of it free to read and use.
Library
Everything in one place
- ArticlesField Notes blogLong-form articles on routing, prediction, agentic commerce and running AI features inside a real operation.
- ReferenceTravel AI glossaryPlain definitions of more than fifty terms, from allotments and bedbanks to grounding, evals and MCP.
- ToolROI calculatorEstimate the hours and cost returned when proposals, supplier confirmations and disruption handling are partly automated.
- ToolAI readiness assessmentTen questions, about five minutes. A score out of 30, a band, and what we would do next in your position.
- ChecklistAgent-ready checklistNearly fifty concrete items for making your inventory discoverable and bookable by AI agents without losing control of checkout.
- APIDevelopersREST API, webhooks and MCP overview for itineraries, routes, quotes, bookings and signals, with sandbox access by request.
Start here
A short path for your role
Three stops each, in the order we'd read them.
Destination organizations
Start with twelve questions to ask before buying an AI trip planner, then the Mountain West case study and the agent-ready checklist.
Hotels and lodges
Read Predicting cancellations before they happen and the desert lodge case study, then check your policies against the checklist.
Travel advisors
Begin with Draft, don't decide, look up anything unfamiliar in the glossary, then estimate your proposal hours in the ROI calculator.
Event and group planners
Read Group trips are negotiations and Disruption playbooks, then the offsite planning case study.
Engineers and technical leads
Go to Developers for the API and MCP overview, then read the MCP primer for travel suppliers and Agent-safe payments.
Related
Keep exploring
- BlogField NotesPractical writing on agentic travel, itinerary science, predictive analytics and booking operations.
- ResourcesGlossaryPlain-English definitions of 55 travel technology and AI terms, from allotments, bedbanks and GDS to grounding, evals, RAG and the Model Context Protocol.
- ResourcesDevelopersREST API, webhooks and MCP access to itineraries, routes, quotes, bookings and signals. OAuth 2.0, environment-scoped keys, sandbox access by request.
- WorkSelected workFour anonymized case studies from tour operators, destinations, lodges and event planners, with pilot results measured against a real baseline.
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