Welcome to the second episode of Travel Tech’s Passport Podcast! In this month’s episode, Travel Tech President and CEO Laura Chadwick sits down with Carroll Rheem, Founder and CEO of Iolite Group and former Director of Research at Phocuswright, to discuss timely topics, including the current AI landscape and major AI developments in travel, the positive impact that international travel to the United States has on our import-export balance and Travel Tech’s upcoming Start-Up Summit for pre-seed and seed-level travel tech innovators.

Check out the stories covered in this month’s episode:

• Traveler Technology: State of AI (Iolite Group & Phocuswright)

• AI Developments in Travel: Skift Timeline (Skift)

• Policymakers weigh in on the future of US AI regulation (TechBrew)

• What's Holding Back Investment in the Travel Industry (Skift)

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Welcome to the first episode of Travel Tech’s Passport Podcast! In this month’s episode, Travel Tech President and CEO Laura Chadwick sits down with Brandon Palumbo, Director of Public Policy and Government Relations at Travel Tech, to discuss the effects of the new Trump administration on the travel technology industry, focusing on AI regulation, airline deregulation, and antitrust enforcement.

Check out the stories covered in this month’s episode:

• 2024 Was the Year of Airline Regulations. In 2025, Many Could Be Scrapped. (Skift)
• Frontier Airlines Offers to Buy Spirit Airlines, Again (The New York Times)
• JD Vance rails against ‘excessive’ AI regulation in a rebuke to Europe at the Paris AI summit (Associated Press)

Don’t miss out on the top stories featured in the Passport Podcast and be sure to subscribe to Travel Tech’s weekly Passport Newsletter at traveltech.org/subscribe.