91%
50%seven or more systems
Agencies working across four or more booking systems
Why is AI hard to deploy in travel distribution?
91% of travel agencies work across four or more booking systems, 50% across seven or more and 10% across ten or more.
41 points apart
This is the structural reason agentic travel is harder than it looks. An agent reasoning about availability and price across ten disconnected systems will be wrong often enough to lose trust, and trust is the scarce input.
Source
- Reference period
- Geography
- Global (14 countries)
- Evidence type
- Survey
- Sample
- Travel agencies across 14 countries
- For comparison
- seven or more systems: 50%
- Last checked
Method
Sabre Content Fragmentation study, 14 countries, April–May 2025. Nearly 90% also manage four or more API integrations.
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