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AI, What Have You DoneFor Me Today?
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Consumer Discretionary: Your AI Travel Assistant is Here

In our series: AI, What Have You Done for Me Today?, we see how AI is quietly revolutionizing the travel industry by enabling virtual travel assistants to streamline trip planning.

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While many are familiar with Artificial Intelligence (AI) through chatbots and virtual assistants, the impact of AI extends far beyond these familiar applications. In fact, AI has become an intrinsic part of our daily lives, often in ways not immediately visible to the public. Today, in industries as diverse as agriculture, transportation, energy, and healthcare, AI is often behind the scenes, quietly revolutionizing business processes, and enhancing efficiencies and accuracy.​​

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AI Travel Assistant

AI is quietly transforming the travel industry, reshaping how travelers plan, book, and experience their journeys. For most of us, travel planning involves significant effort—selecting and comparing flights and accommodations—and often requires multiple hours per trip. However, with the integration of AI, virtual travel assistants can streamline this process, offering travelers curated recommendations based on their preferences and past behavior.
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Imagine you are planning a dream vacation to Hawaii but are overwhelmed by the choices of flights, hotels, and activities. AI travel assistants today can quickly analyze millions of data points, including flight schedules, accommodation reviews, pricing trends, and traveler preferences to offer tailored itineraries.

These AI systems don’t just aggregate data; they enhance decision-making through advanced machine learning algorithms. For example: ​
  • Personalized Itineraries: AI evaluates a traveler’s history, budget, and interests to suggest activities like snorkeling, hiking, or attending a luau.
  • Dynamic Pricing Insights: AI monitors real-time price fluctuations and suggests optimal booking times for flights and hotels, ensuring travelers can secure the best deals.
  • ​ Instant Support: Virtual assistants, integrated into apps or websites, can provide 24/7 assistance. Whether answering queries about visa requirements or rescheduling bookings, these assistants can deliver immediate responses, reducing stress for travelers.

Sample Holdings

Trip.com is a global online travel agency offering comprehensive services, including flight bookings, hotel reservations, train tickets, car rentals, and tour packages, available in 24 languages across 39 countries. Their AI travel assistant, TripGenie, assists users in real-time, guiding them through the entire booking process. TripGenie’s all-in-one interface integrates tourist spots, shopping destinations, booking links, images, and city maps into a single chat. By leveraging the company’s extensive user database with Generative AI (GenAI), TripGenie delivers curated itineraries, insights, and booking options, continuously refining its recommendations as it learns more about your preferences.1 ​​​
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MakeMyTrip is an Indian online travel company offering services such as flight bookings, hotel reservations, holiday packages, and bus and rail tickets. The company uses AI to personalize the travel experience by analyzing user data to recommend flights, hotels, and packages tailored to individual preferences. Their AI assistant , Myra, provides real-time assistance for queries, cancellations, and refunds, and has been expanded to handle hotel and homestay bookings.2​

The Future of AI in Travel​​

​ While AI-powered virtual travel assistants can streamline trip planning today, we believe these companies have the potential to offer agentic AI ​—autonomous systems that act on your behalf. Unlike reactive AI systems, which only respond to specific inputs or commands, agentic AI would function as a personal travel agent. Upon receiving your request to book a vacation, it would design a detailed itinerary and, once you approve, book everything from flights and transfers to dining reservations and activities. By integrating real-time data and predictive analytics from your prior travel interactions, these systems may even plan a trip better than you! With this level of AI advancement, we believe travel companies can truly take the stress out of planning, allowing you to focus on enjoying your trip while they handle the logistics.
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1Trip.com Group Ltd. 2Q 2024 Earnings Call.

2MakeMyTrip Ltd. 3Q 2024 Earnings Call.

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Investing in innovation is not without risk and there is no guarantee that investments in research and development will result in a company gaining market share or achieving enhanced revenue. Also, developing technologies to displace older technologies or create new markets may not in fact do so, and there may be sector specific risks as well. As is the case with any industry, there will be winners and losers that emerge, and investors therefore need to conduct a significant amount of due diligence on individual companies to assess these risks and opportunities. Companies involved in, or exposed to, AI-related businesses may have limited product lines, markets, financial resources, or personnel as they face intense competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence. These companies may be substantially exposed to the market and business risks of other industries or sectors and may be adversely affected by negative developments impacting those companies, industries, or sectors, as well as by loss or impairment of intellectual property rights or misappropriation of their technology. Companies that utilize AI could face reputational harm, competitive harm, and legal liability, and/ or an adverse effect on business operations as content, analyses, or recommendations that AI applications produce may be deficient, inaccurate, biased, misleading or incomplete, may lead to errors, and may be used in negligent or criminal ways. Companies exploring new technologies may face regulatory, political or legal challenges that may adversely impact their competitive positioning and financial prospects.

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Important information for Investors in Israel: Fred Alger Management, LLC is neither licensed nor insured under the Israeli Regulation of Investment Advice, of Investment Marketing, and of Portfolio Management Law, 1995 (the “Investment Advice Law”). This document is for information purposes only and should not be construed as an offering of Investment Advisory, Investment Marketing or Portfolio Management services (As defined in the Investment Advice Law). Services regulated under the Investment Advice Law are only available to investors that fall within the First Schedule of Investment Advice Law (“Qualified Clients”). It is hereby noted that with respect to Qualified Clients, Fred Alger Management, LLC is not obliged to comply with the following requirements of the Investment Advice Law: (1) ensuring the compatibility of service to the needs of client; (2) engaging in a written agreement with the client, the content of which is as described in section 13 of the Investment Advice Law; (3) providing the client with appropriate disclosure regarding all matters that are material to a proposed transaction or to the advice given; (4) a prohibition on preferring certain Securities or other Financial Assets; (5) providing disclosure about “extraordinary risks” entailed in a transaction (and obtaining the client’s approval of such transactions, if applicable); (6) a prohibition on making Portfolio Management fees conditional upon profits or number of transactions; (7) maintaining records of advisory/discretionary actions. This document is directed at and intended for Qualified Clients only.

The following represents the noted percentages of firmwide assets under management as of September 30, 2024: MakeMyTrip Ltd., 0.02%; and Trip.com Group Ltd., 0.06%;.

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