TORONTO, Canada — As travelers rush to book their summer getaways, Booking.com's internet safety boss says watch out for supercharged artificial intelligence (AI) scams.

Marnie Wilking, chief information security officer at the Netherlands-based travel giant, said generative AI had sparked an explosion in online phishing scams, and that the hospitality industry, long spared, had also become a target.

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