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Santiago Rodriguez is here to teach you the basics of AI in Travel so you can springboard your business or career

Welcome to this introduction to our new educational series on AI in Travel.

Quite frankly we are concerned. A recent EY study found only 29% of employees in billion dollar companies believe they have been given sufficient education in how to work with AI and AI agents.

We suspect that number is about 10% in travel and even less in SMB's.

Those in that 29% are set to jump to the head of the promotion list and be sought after by other companies over the next couple of years. This is one of those rare opportunities for people to make a huge leap in their career trajectory – simply by being curious and digging in to get themselves ahead of the pack.

We are removing cost from the decision tree with this series which we are offering totally for free to anyone who wants to finally get themselves or their company moving on the AI train.

The cost of not getting educated is the true cost here.

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You can find the tools we will be working with alongside educator and PHD, Mr Santiago Rodriguez who gets paid by companies to provide this education to the staff within here: www.santiagor.com/free-ai-tools

Hear the episode here.

In 2025 the podcast is now found on Spotify and Apple Podcasts (and if you hit subscribe there, you get it before everyone else). You can also catch up on the whole of Series 1 now also fully available in these channels.

Catch up with Tony at Tourise in Saudi Arabia next week. If you are attending, shoot me a message and let’s meet up.

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Looking for some AI help with your business (I’m currently booked out until 2026); or

Trying to get something sourced or built and not sure where to start or looking for an objective opinion (I’ve built systems for retail travel agencies, agentic voucher to ticket solutions and lots more); or

Looking for exposure to a travel audience of C-suite decision makers for your AI solution (Placements now back available in both newsletter & podcast); or

Looking for someone to speak at your conference on AI in Travel (I’ve recently been speaking at Arival in Washington DC and the Travel Trends AI (Virtual) Summit)

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