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Travel Compositor Integrates AskIA with AI Trips to Streamline Travel Booking

August 15, 2026 by Amara Nambinga

Travel Compositor poursuit le développement de son offre basée sur l'intelligence artificielle - Depositphotos.com, toppercussion

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Travel Compositor, the Spanish publisher of booking engine solutions for online leisure travel distributors and a subsidiary of the Travelsoft group, announces a new evolution of its AI Trips platform.

Named AskIA, this feature introduces a conversational interface enabling users to design, quote, and book a complete itinerary from a simple description of their travel project.

The company explains that this evolution aims to limit the steps of the booking journey, by reducing the number of clicks and simplifying the choice among the different offers available.

A booking guided by conversation

Unlike a traditional search engine, AskIA relies on a conversational approach.

Users describe the desired trip, for example a multi-week circuit or a stay tailored to specific preferences, and the artificial intelligence automatically generates a customized proposal.

The solution selects the various services needed for the trip and then allows finalizing the booking in a few steps. According to Travel Compositor, the entire process can be completed in three clicks.

The tool is capable of assembling different tourism products within a single booking, including flights, accommodations, transfers, activities, insurance, car rental, rail journeys or tickets for various services.

A rollout reserved for Premium Innovator customers

This novelty will initially be offered at no extra cost to clients participating in the Premium Innovator program. They will benefit from early access to this feature as part of its launch.

For Travel Compositor, this integration marks a new milestone in its AI-driven strategy for travel booking.

Alongside the arrival of AskIA, Travel Compositor also unveils Smart Filter, a feature intended to improve the display of search results for hotels and transport.

This intelligent filter should help travelers identify more quickly the options deemed most relevant, with the aim of streamlining searches and improving the user experience across the company’s various booking engines.

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Mirai Integrates Multi-Room Booking into Its AI Assistant Sarai

August 13, 2026 by Amara Nambinga

Mirai fait évoluer Sarai pour gérer les demandes de plusieurs chambres - Depositphotos.com, sdecoret

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Mirai upgrades its AI assistant and its conversational reservations engine Sarai.

The solution can now handle requests for reservations of multiple rooms within a single conversation, without forms or intermediate steps.

A client can thus directly formulate a request such as: “I need two rooms for a family with children”. Sarai is then able to identify the need, manage the booking, and continue the exchange in natural language.

This feature is available across all channels on which Sarai operates, including the webchat, WhatsApp, email, Instagram and telephone.

It is also accessible via ChatGPT, thanks to Apps, and Claude, via MCP.

Mirai states that it is included at no additional cost for customers of its reservations engine.

Multi-room bookings account for 18% of revenue

For hotels, requests involving multiple rooms represent a significant commercial challenge.

According to Mirai’s data up to July 2026, bookings for two rooms or more account for 9.07% of the total reservations made via the web engine.

They nevertheless generate 18.45% of the nights and 18.44% of the revenue linked to rooms. Their value weight is therefore almost twice their volume weight.

The demand is also present on conversational channels. During the last 30 days, 7.03% of availability requests processed by Sarai involved multiple rooms.

Group requests turned into qualified leads

The new feature also accounts for requests that exceed the number of rooms that can be booked online directly.

In this case, Sarai explains to the client the online booking limits, collects their contact details as well as the details of their stay, and then generates a qualified lead for the hotel.

The request is then visible in real time in Lobby, the AI infrastructure dashboard of Mirai, and triggers an email notification to the establishment.

For Mirai, this approach allows transforming a request that could have been abandoned with a traditional booking engine into a business opportunity at the moment the client expresses their purchase intent.

“Handling multi-room bookings was essential in conversational reservations. Today, customers express their need with all their details and their complexity in natural language, and expect the hotel to know how to respond“, explains Pablo Delgado, CEO America of Mirai, in a press release.

According to him, available data show that hotels capable of handling these complex requests are able to attract higher-value clientele.

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Perk Integrates Visa Management Directly into the Booking Process

August 11, 2026 by Amara Nambinga

Perk intègre la gestion des visas directement au processus de réservation - Depositphotos.com, MoleQL

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Visa management is now integrated into the business travel booking journey on Perk. The platform, formerly known as TravelPerk, announces the launch of Entry Ready, described as the first integrated workflow that enables managing and paying for eVisas and electronic travel authorizations without leaving the reservation tool.

The feature automatically analyzes entry requirements from the traveler’s passport details. It then enables initiating a request and settling the associated fees directly within Perk.

Entry Ready is now available to all Perk customers.

The service offers more than 60 eVisas and AVEs thanks to a partnership with Sherpa, a platform specializing in visa solutions.

Sherpa relies on artificial intelligence and more than 350 government relationships to monitor entry conditions. According to Perk, conditions are updated 92% of the time ahead of those of other providers.

The requests processed through Sherpa are also 20% faster than those submitted directly on government portals.

More than 60 eVisas and AVEs available

The deployment of Entry Ready unfolded in two steps.

Since January 2026, Perk automatically displayed the applicable entry conditions for a trip based on the traveler’s passport profile, even before the booking was finalized. This first phase allowed analyzing more than half a million trips and flagging potential visa obligations.

The launch announced on July 23, 2026 adds integrated payment. Travelers can now request and pay for their eVisa or AVE directly at the time of paying for their booking on Perk.

For companies, travel document costs can thus be consolidated on a single line with other travel-related expenses.

A second project born from the Real Work Incubator

Entry Ready is the second project launched by Perk as part of its Real Work Incubator.

The program had already produced Perk Events, an AI-powered module for planning team events, launched in January 2026.

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BlaBlaCar Integrates Trenitalia, Expands Rail Offering in France

July 29, 2026 by Amara Nambinga

BlaBlaCar intègre Trenitalia sur sa plateforme pour élargir son offre de trains en France - Photo : Blablacar

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BlaBlaCar continues to expand its multimodal offering in France.

The platform announced, on May 6, 2026, the integration of Trenitalia trains into its app and website, enabling users to compare and book journeys by train, bus, or carpool from a single interface.

This announcement follows BlaBlaCar’s ongoing opening to rail travel, which began with the SNCF in France, then with the Spanish operators Renfe and Iryo. The addition of Trenitalia thus completes a service that aims to be increasingly European.

Present in France since 2021, Trenitalia operates high-speed connections on the Paris-Lyon, Paris-Marseille, and Paris-Milan routes. The operator claims nearly 5 million travelers carried and a satisfaction rate of 97%.

Its network serves several major stations, including Lyon Part-Dieu, Avignon TGV or Marseille Saint-Charles, as well as destinations in Italy such as Turin and Milan.

With this integration, BlaBlaCar members can now purchase Trenitalia tickets directly, on par with the other transport options already available on the platform.

A Centralized User Experience

One of the key aims of this collaboration is to streamline the purchasing journey. Users can compare the various options — train, bus, or carpool — without leaving the BlaBlaCar environment, and complete their booking without being redirected to third-party sites.

This centralized approach also extends to new conversational usages. The Trenitalia offering is accessible via the BlaBlaCar app integrated with ChatGPT, enabling travel searches in natural language.

For Erwin Coffy, BlaBlaCar’s commercial director, this development marks “a decisive step” in the group’s strategy, with the ambition to become a reference platform for long-distance journeys, by focusing on transparency of offers and price comparisons.

On his side, Marco Caposciutti, president of Trenitalia France, emphasizes that this partnership aims to increase the visibility of rail travel and to reach new customers, especially those seeking simple and centralized solutions.

The Train, a Growth Driver for BlaBlaCar

Beyond expanding the offering, rail travel appears as a growth lever for BlaBlaCar. According to the company, one in four bookings is made by a new user, while 70% of train customers were already using its carpool or bus services.

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