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Mastercard Touts Successful Agentic Travel Transaction

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Mastercard partnered with Travelport, Booked AI, and Basis Theory to complete a live, end-to-end, AI-powered travel purchase. The initiative combined Mastercard's payment network with travel retailing, conversational AI, and payment vault technologies.

Key facts

  • Mastercard completed a live, end-to-end, artificial intelligence-powered travel purchase with three partners.
  • The effort combined Mastercard's payment network, Travelport's retailing, Booked AI's conversational platform, and Basis Theory's payment vault.
  • An AI travel agent searched and booked the travel transaction as part of the collaboration.

Source excerpt · PYMNTS

Mastercard has teamed with a trio of payments and travel companies to complete a live, end-to-end, artificial intelligence-powered travel purchase. This effort, announced Thursday (Nov. 12), combined Mastercard’s payment network with Travelport’s travel retailing and connectivity, Booked AI’s conversational travel platform, and Basis Theory’s payment vault. “Through the collaboration, an AI travel…