Mews is cutting 15% of its roughly 1,350-person staff — its deepest restructuring since the pandemic — and founder and CEO Richard Valtr is pointing to AI and "roles built for an era that is ceasing to exist." The restructuring is designed to have workers own more of the work from start to finish.

The cuts come as other travel and travel-adjacent tech companies have been trimming staff while reworking their businesses around automation, artificial intelligence, and leaner operating models.

The most senior women in travel are meeting as peers in New York, Montreal, Chicago, and Las Vegas.

Each Exchange fills a room where 90% of attendees are director-level or above, built for the candid conversations that happen away from the main stage.

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Regulators are watching how cruise lines handle whale-rich waters, and MSC Cruises isn't waiting to find out what new rules might cost. Its first Alaska season comes with a marine scientist on the bridge, feeding real-time data to navigation officers, a model other lines will be watching closely.

Searching for a monthly rental price that was nowhere to be found online, ChatGPT delivered an answer in seconds by pulling from a Facebook group post that could have been years old.

In this clip from Good Morning Hospitality, A Skift Podcast, Wil Slickers, Michael Goldin, and Brandreth Canaley use that real moment to get into the trust gap sitting underneath all the agentic AI hype. Speed is not the same as accuracy and when the agent gets it wrong someone still has to pick up the phone.

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