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43%second half of 2025

US travellers who used AI on at least one trip

Have most travellers now used AI for a trip?

56% of US travellers used AI for planning, booking or in-destination help on at least one trip in the past twelve months, up from 43% six months earlier and 33% the half-year before that.

For comparisonFirst half of 2026 · United States
US travellers who used AI on at least one trip · United States56%
second half of 202543%

13 points apart

The clearest series in this dataset: the same instrument, three consecutive waves, one direction. Phocuswright calls it the fastest behavioural shift in travel in a decade, and the wave-on-wave gains hold across every generation.

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Reference period
Geography
United States
Evidence type
Survey
Sample
US travellers; The AI Surge: Travel's Fastest Behavioral Shift in a Decade, published March 2026
For comparison
second half of 2025: 43%
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Method

Phocuswright, The AI Surge: Travel's Fastest Behavioral Shift in a Decade, published March 2026. US travellers; waves 1H25, 2H25 and 1H26. Among travellers who have used AI at all, 94% have used it for travel.

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