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. You're confusing disruption with extinction. AI agents need travel data, pricing, inventory, and real-time availability to function, which means they either integrate with aggregators or become them. The question isn't whether agents replace Expedia, it's who builds the best agent layer on top of existing infrastructure. Aggregators have brand trust, payment systems, and supplier relationships worth billions. A standalone AI agent promising cheaper flights? It still needs those same data sources. You're betting incumbents won't adapt. History suggests otherwise. What's your actual mechanism for why Expedia can't just launch their own agent and crush every competitor who tries?