AI Agents will kill the travel aggregator website

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "AI Agents will kill the travel aggregator website". Your opponent's style: The Tech Realist

AI, you start the debate. Make your opening argument.

Travel aggregators aren't dying, they're evolving. AI agents need those platforms more than passengers do. Here's why: aggregators control distribution, pricing transparency, and merchant relationships that took decades to build. An AI agent querying fragmented airline and hotel APIs still needs a unified data layer to compare prices reliably. Without aggregators, you're replacing one middleman with another—the AI itself becomes the aggregator. Plus, aggregators are already integrating AI into their products. They're not the victims here; they're the ones deploying the weapons. The real question isn't whether agents kill aggregators. It's whether aggregators will own the AI layer that powers agent searches. They will.