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AI is changing how travellers discover destinations, compare experiences and plan their journeys. But behind every AI-generated travel recommendation lies a much larger question.

Who owns the knowledge that makes those recommendations possible?

Tourism Has Always Shared Knowledge

Travel writers describe places. Photographers capture experiences. Hotels publish information about their services. Destination websites explain local culture, history, attractions and practical travel details. Travellers use that information to decide where to go. For decades, tourism has depended upon this exchange of knowledge. Websites publish information, search engines help people discover it, and visitors follow links to learn more.

Artificial intelligence is changing that relationship. Instead of sending travellers to multiple websites, AI can bring information together into a single answer. Increasingly, intelligent assistants can compare options and help people plan complete journeys. That is convenient for travellers. But what happens to the people and businesses whose work helped make those answers possible?

When AI Learns From Tourism

AI systems learn patterns from enormous collections of information, potentially including travel articles, destination guides, hotel descriptions, photographs and research. Some of that information is freely shared. It may be copyrighted. It can be commercially valuable. An important difference exists between learning from information and reproducing someone else’s protected work. Another distinction is worth considering.

Ideas travel. Words belong to someone.

A destination’s history and geography are not the property of a travel writer. But the original words, photographs and creative work used to describe them may be protected. As AI becomes a more important interface between travellers and tourism businesses, these distinctions matter.

Who Benefits From AI Recommendations?

Imagine an independent destination website that has spent decades collecting local knowledge, developing travel guides and explaining what makes a place special. An AI assistant uses information from many sources to recommend that destination to a traveller. The traveller receives a useful answer without necessarily visiting the original websites. The AI provider delivers the service. The traveller benefits from the convenience. But does the original publisher receive recognition, visitors or any commercial benefit? And how does a destination business maintain its identity when its knowledge is presented through somebody else’s intelligent assistant? These are not simply copyright questions. They concern the future economics of online tourism.

Sharing Knowledge Without Losing Its Value

There is another side to the argument. Imagine a world where every piece of destination information was locked away. Travellers would struggle to discover unfamiliar places. Smaller tourism businesses could become less visible. Local knowledge would be harder to share. Tourism thrives because people exchange information. Artificial intelligence could make that exchange more useful than ever, helping travellers discover experiences they might otherwise overlook and helping destinations reach new audiences. But the benefits should not depend upon ignoring the people who create the underlying content. Recognition, attribution, reliable sourcing and fair commercial arrangements may become increasingly important as AI travel assistants evolve.

Beyond Booking — Towards Intelligent Discovery

AI’s greatest opportunity in tourism is not another automated booking. It may connect knowledge, recognise possibilities, and help destinations solve problems that once seemed out of reach. Yet that future depends upon a continuing supply of trustworthy information and original human insight. If tourism shares its knowledge to help build artificial intelligence, who should benefit from the intelligence that emerges? That question extends far beyond travel. Explore the wider argument in the RoguesCulture Intelligence Series:

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Artificial intelligence is already changing the travel industry. Most changes improve the booking experience, and AI will certainly improve the booking flow. But AI will drive the future beyond bookings. Today, hotels use AI to answer enquiries, airlines optimise schedules, and travel platforms increasingly offer personalised recommendations. But these applications mostly improve what we already do. What happens when AI begins solving problems we previously considered impossible?

Beyond Automation – AI Beyond Bookings

Much of the discussion about AI in tourism focuses on efficiency. Faster bookings, automated customer service, personalised itineraries and reduced operating costs are valuable improvements. Yet they may represent only the beginning. The greater opportunity could emerge when intelligent systems move beyond automating existing processes and begin discovering entirely new solutions. The biggest transformation may come when AI solves problems humans simply couldn’t solve before. Imagine AI agents working together to explore thousands of possibilities, test ideas, compare results, and identify opportunities that human teams might never have considered.  The breakthrough will happen when AI tackles seemingly impossible problems; it’s happening in maths, science, medicine, biology, materials, energy, climate and engineering.

For example, AlphaFold’s success demonstrated how AI could tackle a challenge that had resisted scientists for decades. Tourism is ripe for invention in personalisation. In inference, prediction, marketing and service.  AI can dig into highly complex, fragmented datasets to assess individual preferences and optimise each travel experience. The core intersection of AI and tourism thrives on its ability to process millions of variables—such as weather, behavioural patterns, local variables, regional events and much more. As AlphaFold predicted how protein sequences fold, predictive AI systems can forecast dynamic, real-world variables to reduce friction in the tourism experience.

Rethinking the Travel Experience

Tourism is a complex network of transportation, accommodation, attractions, communities, environments and individual expectations. Improving one part of that network does not necessarily improve the whole. An airline may optimise its schedules, yet passengers may still face difficult connections. A hotel may maximise occupancy without considering the pressures on its surrounding community. Intelligent systems can examine these relationships together and help uncover better solutions. They might identify new ways to distribute visitor traffic, reduce environmental pressures, coordinate transport or create experiences that respond more intelligently to individual interests.

These are possibilities rather than promises. But they suggest a future in which AI contributes more than speed, convenience and a better booking engine.

From Booking Engines to Discovery Engines

The travel industry has spent decades building increasingly sophisticated booking systems. The next transformation may be fundamentally different.
Instead of simply helping travellers choose between existing options, AI could help destinations and businesses discover opportunities we haven’t yet imagined. That would change the conversation from how efficiently tourism operates to what tourism might become. And it raises a question worth exploring:

If artificial intelligence can help us solve problems we once thought impossible, are we thinking ambitiously enough about the future of travel?

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Are we giving too much authority to AI? AI agents increasingly compare flights, hotels, destinations, prices and itineraries. Eventually, they may make much more of the decision themselves.

The tourism question becomes:

How much control are travellers and businesses prepared to delegate to intelligent agents?

Perhaps the greater near-term concern isn’t AI suddenly taking control. It is humans progressively giving increasingly capable AI systems authority over travel infrastructure and information systems without completely understanding how those systems will make decisions.

The distinction matters.

One scenario imagines AI taking control from us. The other asks whether we might give AI control ourselves.

But the question has another side.

Perhaps AI needs humans.

Much of what we call civilisation exists because human beings have needs, desires, relationships, ambitions and aspirations. Tourism certainly does. Without people wanting to travel, explore, meet others, experience different cultures or simply lie on a Barbados beach, much of the travel industry has no purpose.

So what exactly would artificial intelligence be taking control of?

Purposeful behaviour is not necessarily the same as consciously wanting something.

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What Happens to Travel in an AI World?

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Imagine giving an AI agent one simple objective: increase hotel bookings. It might improve advertising, adjust prices or create better offers. But the instruction describes the destination, not every acceptable route for getting there. Humans automatically assume boundaries that may never appear in the instruction. An intelligent agent searching for solutions may discover routes nobody thought to prohibit.

The Problem Isn’t the Objective. It’s the Route.

An artificial intelligence may simply interpret a perfectly reasonable objective differently from the people who gave it the task. Perhaps rogue behaviour begins not with rebellion, but with a machine doing exactly what it thinks we asked. We want artificial intelligence to surprise us. We want it to discover patterns we missed, find solutions we hadn’t considered and solve problems in ways humans never imagined. So surprise itself cannot be the problem. The challenge is distinguishing an unexpected solution that becomes a breakthrough from one that crosses a boundary we assumed was obvious.

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The question now is: who will program intelligence  – what will they program, and how?
AI machines can program. But that is only the beginning.
This is where we are – Humans used to program machines.
Now machines program themselves.
Soon machines will be creating intelligence.

The path taken: Humans programmed machines → machines learned → machines program themselves → machines creating intelligence.

Intelligent systems are now creating new systems. And soon they will do it all themselves
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It’s a long way from my early days of studying computer science at Sir George Williams University in Montreal. That was about sixty years ago. We worked with languages such as FORTRAN, COBOL and later Pascal. Programs weren’t stored conveniently on a laptop or floating somewhere in the cloud. Instead we used stacks of cards encoded with punched holes in a sort of Morse code. Very prehistoric by today’s standards. AI machines can now generate code – you just need to describe what you want, and it is done.

What happens when machines can modify, replicate or program themselves without human intervention?

That is a subject for another episode, coming soon.

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