McKinsey & CompanySurvey
33%
36%higher-quality outputs
US travel executives reporting AI improves personalisation
What returns do travel executives report from AI?
33% of US travel executives say AI improves customer personalisation and 36% report higher-quality outputs.
US travel executives reporting AI improves personalisation · United States33%
higher-quality outputs36%
3 points apart
Executive-reported benefit is far below executive-reported adoption, the same pattern the agency data shows. Roughly a third of deployments are producing an effect the business can name.
Source
McKinsey & CompanyConsultancy
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- Geography
- United States
- Evidence type
- Survey
- Sample
- 86 mostly US-based travel executives, surveyed for Remapping travel with agentic AI (McKinsey with Skift)
- For comparison
- higher-quality outputs: 36%
- Last checked
Method
McKinsey with Skift, Remapping travel with agentic AI, September 2025. Sample of 86 mostly US-based travel executives — small enough that the levels are directional rather than precise.
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