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Adriana Lee @ Skift 3 place · 12/09/2025 11:53 EDT

Selectour’s New AI Aims to Fix The Booking Handoff Problem

For a travel sector eager to automate, the basics still matter — especially continuity between bots and human travel agents. Selectour and Kleio tackle the handoff problem, and the effort could prepare advisors for the agentic future. 

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