McKinsey & CompanyAnalysis
35%
4%2022 annual reports
Largest travel companies mentioning AI in annual reports
How fast did AI reach the travel industry's boardrooms?
35% of the Skift Travel 200 mentioned AI in their 2024 annual reports, up from about 4% in 2022.
Largest travel companies mentioning AI in annual reports · Global35%
2022 annual reports4%
31 points apart
An eightfold rise in two years, measured in the documents companies are legally careful about rather than in marketing material. It is the cleanest available evidence that AI moved from experiment to disclosed strategy.
Source
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- Geography
- Global
- Evidence type
- Analysis
- Sample
- Skift Travel 200, the largest publicly traded travel companies
- For comparison
- 2022 annual reports: 4%
- Last checked
Method
Analysis of the Skift Travel 200, the largest publicly traded travel companies, in Remapping travel with agentic AI (McKinsey with Skift, September 2025). Counts any mention of AI, so it measures salience rather than deployment.
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