AI in Hospitality & Travel: 7 real deployments

Integrated Mixue Bingcheng services into Alipay's agentic commerce platform as agent-ready skills accessible via Alipay's Ah Bao consumer agent

Integrated Luckin Coffee services into Alipay's agentic commerce platform as agent-ready skills accessible via Alipay's Ah Bao consumer agent

Integrated KFC pages, products and workflows into Alipay's agentic commerce platform as agent-ready skills accessible via Alipay's Ah Bao consumer agent

Deployed Palona AI's multimodal operating layer to watch the physical store in real time and coordinate frontline teams

Reported: Palona became the highest average-order-value channel at Cali BBQ

Airbnb operates a text-based AI support agent in more than 50 languages and plans AI voice support and natural-language accommodation search.

Reported: The agent handled more than 40% of routed customer issues without a human in Q2 and support cost per booking fell about 16% year over year.

Fora's Via AI assistant automates research and itinerary building for travel advisors.

Reported: Advisors on the platform have booked more than $3 billion in travel.

Wonder is deploying an automated bowl-making robotic system, acquired from Sweetgreen, in its first kitchen to produce salads, Tex-Mex and poke bowls, with companion machines for sauces and beverages in development.

Reported: System produces 500 bowls per hour versus roughly 45 for a human worker; Sweetgreen currently runs it across 32 locations; Lore claims it produces bowls with 'no errors'.