Chinese Outbound Travel, Travel Innovations, Agentic AI and Airlines: Ask Skift's Most Popular Questions

We sum up the answers to some of Ask Skift's most popular questions, including trends in Chinese outbound travel and recent innovations in travel apps and platforms.

Here are three of the most common questions our answer engine Ask Skift 2.0 has fielded recently and a brief summary of the responses it gave.

A growing percentage of Chinese travelers are going abroad for the first time. China Trading Desk's second-quarter survey revealed that 44% of Chinese travelers are making their first international trips, up six percentage points from the previous quarter.

Chinese travelers are also, in general, finalizing their travel decisions closer to departure time. A survey by China Trading Desk in April found roughly 77% of bookings made by Chinese travelers are within one month of the trip and 46% are within