Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, October 3, 2025, is below. Artificial intelligence again generated most of this past week’s headlines (many of which coming out of the recent Destination AI Forum in Washington, D.C.), but social media also made a strong showing.
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