The Rise of the Artificial Intelligent Tour Guide

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The Rise of the Artificial Intelligent Tour Guide
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Alex will be discussing his new venture, Autoura a platform for autonomous vehicles, and Sahra, an artificial intelligent tour guide.Alex Bainbridge’s influence within the industry should not be underestimated.

Alex founded TourCMS, the original leader in tours & activities online travel agent distribution providing reservation system and distribution technology to hundreds of local tour operators, and ran that business for 10 years until its successful sale in October 2015.

Highlights of this period include working with the industry leading sightseeing brand Gray Line providing online travel agent distribution services from 2012 onwards (TourCMS still runs this service today). In multi-day tour distribution Alex also created, with TourRadar, the first industry end-to-end solution connecting live reservation system availability with travel agent distribution.

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