# AI loses 70% of customers because it forgets who they are

Canonical-URL: https://notitur.com/en/digest/travel-ai-context-milan-goppar-olympics
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Published: 2026-10-02T15:01:37.001Z
Modified: 2026-10-02T15:01:37.001Z
Author: Joan Sanz
Topics: Artificial Intelligence
Summary: Twilio puts a number on the big hole in travel AI: 70% of consumers walk away when the assistant loses context. Milan, meanwhile, lifts GOPPAR 34% on the Winter Games.

## Article

Twilio has put a number on something many of us in the industry suspected: **70% of consumers abandon an AI interaction when the system loses the thread** of the conversation, according to the data pulled together by [Hospitality Net](https://www.hospitalitynet.org/editorial/4134707/70-of-consumers-abandon-ai-because-it-forgot-them-milan-goppar-up-34-on-the-winter-olympics-what-tech-vendors-actually-want-from-hotel-clients). The diagnosis points at what we keep seeing in booking assistant pilots: the engine answers fine, but forgets the guest already said they travel with a dog or asked for a crib. What is being floated as the fix is a guest memory layer, something a PMS or CRM already holds and that now needs proper wiring.

Meanwhile, Cushman & Wakefield drops a revenue manager's kind of figure: **Milan closes with GOPPAR 34.2% higher** on Winter Olympics demand, with **February RevPAR growing more than two and a half times**. Same old reminder: the calendar rules, and whoever holds inventory in the right city when an event lands feels it where it counts.

There is a third thread in the same report, what tech vendors actually want from hotel clients. I read it as a warning. If you are buying AI, do not ask for magic, ask for clean data flowing out of your systems and someone in-house able to make decisions. No vendor will fix that part from the outside.

## Sources

- Hospitality Net: https://www.hospitalitynet.org/editorial/4134707/70-of-consumers-abandon-ai-because-it-forgot-them-milan-goppar-up-34-on-the-winter-olympics-what-tech-vendors-actually-want-from-hotel-clients

## Citation

AI loses 70% of customers because it forgets who they are. Notitur. 2026-10-02. https://notitur.com/en/digest/travel-ai-context-milan-goppar-olympics