AI Shifts Travel Data Control Back To Travelers

Jochen Ehrhardt, founder of TRUE 5 STARS, argues that AI could reconfigure data ownership in travel by turning conversational agents into portable, traveler-controlled preference profiles. He warns this shift would reduce intermediaries' scale advantage, raise demand for semantically rich hotel data, and require hotels to standardize clear descriptors and external validation to remain discoverable.
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