Mastercard and Trip.com have partnered with Network International to showcase AI-powered booking experiences designed to transform how consumers search, book and pay for travel services.
The collaboration demonstrates how Trip.com’s AI agent, TripGenie, can support an end-to-end travel booking journey through Mastercard’s Agent Suite for Merchants, with Network International providing acquiring capabilities. The initiative combines travel services, payment infrastructure and agentic commerce technologies to explore new approaches to digital travel transactions.
Mastercard’s Agent Suite for Merchants enables businesses to integrate agent-powered shopping experiences into existing e-commerce environments. These capabilities can support product discovery, research and consumer-authorised purchases while allowing merchants to retain control over their brand and customer experience.
For travel, the partnership is designed to move beyond conventional search by enabling AI agents to assist consumers throughout discovery, planning, booking and payment. Selected travel services, including attractions and ancillary offerings, are expected to benefit from the approach.
The initiative brings together Trip.com’s travel ecosystem, Network International’s acquiring infrastructure and Mastercard’s global payments network, gateway capabilities and agentic commerce framework.
TripGenie is being exclusively showcased at the Arabian Travel Market as a global first. The partners plan to pursue a phased rollout, with a commercial launch expected in early 2027.
The companies said the approach could provide a scalable model for merchants, payment service providers and financial institutions seeking to adopt agent-driven commerce across the Middle East, Africa and other markets.
Agent Suite for Merchants is available through Mastercard Merchant Cloud, an open acceptance framework that provides businesses with access to modular payment capabilities including fraud protection, authentication, tokenisation, data and partner services.
