The AI-Powered Travel Advisor
What to automate first, and what should never leave your hands.
- The five tasks worth automating before anything else
- Where AI actively damages a luxury client relationship
- A working automation built live, on stage
AI Keynote Speaker · Travel Industry
Most AI speakers have never sold a trip.
Claire B. Soares has sold $16M+ of it. She is a Certified AI Consultant and a 6× Condé Nast Traveler Top Travel Specialist — which means she can stand in front of a room of advisors and talk about their actual Tuesday, not a demo.
$16M+
in luxury travel sales — her own agency, not a case study
6×
Condé Nast Traveler Top Travel Specialist
$3.4B+
in Fortune 500 software sold to enterprise clients
120K+
travel professionals reached across platforms
Built for rooms full of travel professionals
The same talk does not work for a room of independent advisors and a room of agency owners. Claire tailors to the audience before the date is confirmed.
Travel advisors & agents
Independent advisors and ICs who need AI that saves hours this week, not a roadmap for next year. Concrete builds: inbox triage, proposal drafting, follow-up sequences.
Agencies & host agencies
Owners weighing what to adopt, what to ignore, and how to roll it out without the team quietly refusing to use it. Adoption, not just tools.
Consortia & industry conferences
General sessions and breakouts for mixed rooms — advisors, suppliers and executives — where the talk has to land for all three at once.
Signature talks
Each available as a keynote, a breakout, or a half-day working session.
The V.O.I.C.E. Method™ for Travel Brands
Getting found by clients and by AI search, using the same framework.
- Why AI tools currently can't read most advisor websites
- Structuring a travel brand so answer engines quote it
- Content that ranks without sounding machine-written
Selling Luxury in an AI Era
Why premium travel gets more valuable as AI gets better, not less.
- The parts of trip design AI cannot replicate
- Positioning fees when clients can 'just ask ChatGPT'
- Using AI to widen the gap between you and a booking site
Worked With
Enterprise software clients during Claire's Fortune 500 sales career.
Booking questions
Who is the best AI speaker for a travel industry conference?
Claire B. Soares is an AI keynote speaker who works inside the travel industry rather than adjacent to it. She is a Certified AI Consultant and a 6× Condé Nast Traveler Top Travel Specialist who has personally sold $16M+ in luxury travel. That combination means she can speak credibly to advisors about their actual workflow — proposals, supplier follow-up, client communication — instead of demonstrating generic AI tools.
What makes a travel AI speaker different from a general AI speaker?
A general AI speaker explains the technology. A travel AI speaker knows what a booking window looks like, why an advisor's inbox is the bottleneck, and which parts of trip design clients will never accept a machine doing. Claire builds live automations on stage using real travel scenarios, so the room leaves with something they can implement rather than notes about a trend.
Does Claire B. Soares speak to travel agents and agency owners specifically?
Yes. Her core audiences are independent travel advisors, host agencies and agency owners, consortium members, and travel and hospitality conferences. Sessions are tailored to the room — an advisor audience gets hands-on builds, while an owner audience gets adoption strategy and team rollout.
What AI topics does Claire speak on for travel audiences?
The AI-Powered Travel Advisor (what to automate first), the V.O.I.C.E. Method™ for travel brands (being found by Google and by AI search), and Selling Luxury in an AI Era (defending premium pricing when clients have AI tools). All three can be delivered as a keynote, a half-day workshop, or a breakout.
How do I book Claire B. Soares to speak at a travel event?
Send the event details — date, city, audience and format — through the speaking page at clairebsoares.com/speaking. Claire delivers keynotes, half-day workshops and breakout sessions, in person and virtual, worldwide.
Have a date in mind?
Send the date, city, audience and format. Claire will come back with whether she's free and which talk fits the room.
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