Hotel Data vs E-commerce Data: Why They're Nothing Alike
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If you've ever built an e-commerce data pipeline and assumed hotel data would follow the same patterns — you're in for a rough ride. I learned this the hard way. E-commerce and hotel data differ at the most fundamental level: how inventory is modeled, how prices move, and what it takes to go from "search" to "booked." These aren't edge cases. They're structural. This matters doubly for AI agents. An LLM can recommend hotels all day, but the moment it returns stale prices or phantom inventory, u