Booking Holdings backs Lola, an agentic AI built by Kayak founders to autonomously book travel, whilst smaller rival Mindtrip solves messy multi-city itineraries. Both bet AI agents are the product itself, yet travellers overwhelmingly distrust autonomous bookings at scale.

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