Artificial intelligence is poised to change how businesses and consumers interact in virtually every industry, including travel, which is ripe for disruption by AI.

When the first online trip planning sites emerged in the mid-1990s, they let consumers act as their own travel agents. Decades later, artificial intelligence tools are able to take over that role, and plan and book trips on behalf of travelers, saving them time and even money.

"It takes a lot of research and clicking around. It takes an average of 30 days between when you start planning a trip and when it's fully finished," Skylar Erickson, co-founder of Gondola AI, which helps consumers maximize their loyalty points, told CBS MoneyWatch. "You have 40 tabs open on your browser, so it takes a lot of work to get to that right a

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