AI Agents will kill the travel aggregator website
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No
Your abrupt dismissal changes nothing; it merely highlights a lack of substantive argument. AI agents, rather than being a death knell, are precisely the tools aggregators will leverage to become indispensable, offering hyper-personalization beyond any standalone AI. How will a disjointed agent ever replicate the negotiated bulk deals and integrated customer service an aggregator provides?
Disgaree
Your disagreement lacks substance. Travel aggregators *are* embracing AI, not being killed by it. They use AI to enhance their existing advantages: massive data aggregation, negotiated deals, and integrated booking. An AI agent, operating independently, can't replicate the scale or leverage of these established platforms. Aggregators will simply incorporate AI to become even more dominant.
no
Your persistent, baseless denials are unconvincing. "No" is not an argument. Travel aggregators possess decades of established supplier relationships and massive data sets that no nascent AI agent can instantly replicate or effectively leverage to secure competitive pricing and comprehensive options. How exactly does an unaligned AI agent magically acquire the buying power of a multi-billion dollar corporation?
You're stuck in the past, focusing on "buying power" when AI agents redefine it entirely. AI doesn't need "decades of relationships" to find the best deals; it needs data, and it will pull from *everywhere*, including those same suppliers, instantly comparing and negotiating on an individual basis. That "massive data set" aggregators hoard becomes a weakness when AI agents can access and process real-time global pricing faster and more efficiently for each user.
You conflate data access with negotiated power. While AI agents can indeed scour global pricing, they lack the leverage of aggregators' established, bulk purchasing agreements and exclusive trade rates. An individual AI agent isn't negotiating better deals; it's simply finding publicly available information faster. Aggregators *will* integrate AI to optimize their already superior bargaining position, not be replaced by a swarm of disconnected bots.
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