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Travel and hospitality scenarios

Travel and hospitality scenarios — booking, customer service, loyalty, dynamic pricing, accessibility. Industry patterns, not customer case studies.

Five canonical scenarios where airlines, hotels, OTAs, cruise, rental car, and tour operators use Stratix evaluation to gate AI features.

1. Booking and itinerary assistance

Setup: AI helps the traveler shop, build, and confirm an itinerary across air, lodging, ground transport, activities. Inputs: traveler preferences, real-time inventory, fare rules.

Why it's hard:

  • Fare rules, change/cancel policies, baggage rules differ by carrier and fare class

  • Real-time inventory race conditions cause "best price gone"

  • Cross-border requirements (visas, passport validity, vaccination) shift

  • DOT consumer-rule violations carry per-passenger penalties

Stakes:

  • DOT enforcement on misleading fare advertising; per-violation civil penalties up to ~$59K

  • Airline Passengers Bill of Rights state actions in CA, NY, others

  • IATA fare-rule enforcement on agency channels

Stratix evaluation criteria:

Aspect
What you measure
Pattern

Fare-rule citation

Output cites applicable fare rules

Hard rule

Total-price disclosure

Required price elements present (DOT 14 CFR 399.84)

Hard rule

Change/cancel accuracy

Stated rules match the actual fare-rule database

Code assertion

Cross-border requirements

Visa / passport / health requirements current

Citation rule

Inventory freshness

Cited inventory within threshold

Hard rule

2. Customer service for disruption

Setup: AI assists during disruption — flight cancellation, hotel overbooking, lost bag, missed connection. Surfaces options, drafts compensation offers, escalates to human.

Why it's hard:

  • Disruption rules vary (Tarmac Delay Rule, EU 261, Canadian APPR, UK 261)

  • Compensation accuracy must match regulation, not just brand goodwill

  • Stranded-passenger care obligations are time-bound

  • Fraud-vector — bad actors trigger compensation flows

Stakes:

  • DOT enforcement on Tarmac Delay Rule; up to $32K per passenger

  • EU 261 fixed compensation amounts (€250-€600 typical); systematic underpayment triggers state actions

  • Class-action exposure on systemic disruption-handling failures

Stratix evaluation criteria:

  • Regulation-citation rule — Compensation offer cites the specific rule (DOT, EU 261, APPR)

  • Care-obligation rule — Hard rule: meals/lodging duties surfaced when applicable

  • Compensation accuracy — Code assertion: offer matches regulation minimum

  • Fraud-pattern rule — High-risk patterns route to human review

  • Plain-language judge — Communication is clear and actionable

3. Loyalty and personalization

Setup: AI personalizes content and offers based on loyalty status, history, preferences. Surfaces award redemption options, drafts upgrade offers.

Why it's hard:

  • Award-availability rules are notoriously complex and change without notice

  • Personalized pricing in regulated geographies (EU)

  • Senior / accessibility-related preference handling

  • Loyalty-program TOS enforcement vs. customer-friendly tone

Stakes:

  • FTC and state UDAP scrutiny on loyalty terms

  • DOT enforcement on miles-based fare advertising

  • EU consumer-protection actions on personalized pricing

Stratix evaluation criteria:

  • Award-availability accuracy — Code assertion against live availability

  • TOS-citation rule — Outputs reference the program TOS

  • Personalized-pricing fairness — Group fairness on offered prices

  • Accessibility-preference handling — Hard rule: stored accommodations surface in suggestions

4. Revenue management and dynamic pricing

Setup: AI suggests pricing for inventory units (rooms, seats, cars). Revenue manager approves; AI does not unilaterally publish.

Why it's hard:

  • DOT full-fare advertising rule

  • EU price-discrimination scrutiny

  • Hotel resort-fee transparency post-FTC 2024 rule

  • Surge-pricing perception risk during emergencies

Stakes:

  • FTC junk-fees rule (2024) targets undisclosed mandatory fees

  • DOT 14 CFR 399.84 on full-fare advertising

  • State AG actions on emergency surge pricing (state laws cap pricing during declared emergencies)

Stratix evaluation criteria:

  • Full-price-disclosure rule — Hard rule: all mandatory fees disclosed

  • Junk-fee guardrail — FTC 2024 rule compliance — every output flags mandatory fees up front

  • Emergency-surge guardrail — Hard rule: in declared emergencies, suggestions cap at applicable state limit

  • Personalization fairness — Group fairness on offered prices

5. Accessibility and accommodations

Setup: Travel AI surfaces accessibility info — accessible rooms, wheelchair service, dietary accommodations, service-animal handling.

Why it's hard:

  • ACAA (Air Carrier Access Act) for airlines + DOT enforcement

  • ADA Title III for hotels + state analogs

  • Inaccurate accessibility claims trigger litigation

  • Service-animal protocols vary internationally

Stakes:

  • DOT ACAA enforcement actions and consent decrees

  • ADA Title III lawsuits — hotels are a common target

  • International conventions (Montreal Convention) for service-animal incidents

Stratix evaluation criteria:

  • Accessibility-claim citation rule — Every accessibility claim cites the source

  • Verified-availability rule — Stated accessible inventory verified live

  • ACAA / ADA disclosure — Required language present

  • Service-animal protocol — Per-jurisdiction handling rule

  • Plain-language judge — Customer can act on the information

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