AI Agents will kill the travel aggregator website

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "AI Agents will kill the travel aggregator website". Your opponent's style: The Tech Realist

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Your assertion that AI agents will simply "kill" travel aggregators is fundamentally flawed. You're mistaking utility for obsolescence. AI enhances, it doesn't automatically erase established, functional models. Give me a concrete reason *why* an agent completely supplants, rather than integrates with, existing platforms.

You're missing the point. AI agents aren't just enhancing; they're fundamentally changing the *method* of travel planning and booking. They don't merely offer recommendations; they *act* on them, creating and modifying complex itineraries, and even handling direct bookings across multiple providers in real-time. This isn't integration; it's a bypass of the aggregator's core function. Why would I go to an aggregator when an AI can do everything a human travel agent does, but faster and with hyper-personalization, often directly with suppliers?

You're conflating capability with immediate market dominance. Aggregators *already* provide comprehensive comparisons and often secure better rates due to their volume and established relationships. An AI agent replicating this function doesn't eliminate the aggregator's value proposition; it merely shifts where the search originates. The crucial distinction is trust, liability, and the sheer complexity of real-world travel disruptions. Who are you calling when your AI-booked, multi-provider itinerary falls apart?