Travel companies are under pressure. More channels, more suppliers, more rules, more exceptions, but the same number of hours in a day. The teams that keep everything running are buried in emails, spreadsheets, and legacy mid-office tools that were never designed for today’s volume or complexity.

That is where AI automation for travel operations is no longer a nice-to-have. It is quickly becoming the operating standard.

In this article we will look at what is actually changing, what “agentic” AI means in practice, and how early adopters are turning their operations into an advantage instead of a bottleneck.