The Missing Layer in Agentic Travel: Why "The AI Can Book It Now" Isn't the Hard Part (opens in new tab)

Something real shifted in commerce this year, and most of the commentary around it is focused on the wrong question. Visa recently announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI to bring secure, identity-verified payments directly into AI-driven shopping experiences. Major payment networks don't make moves like that on a hunch — they make them when a category has crossed from experimental into something worth building real infrastructure around. Agentic commerce, the idea that an AI assistan...