The law that just fined Google has been running on Booking.com since December 2024. - Booking lost the rate parity clause in December 2024, and the money moved to paid placement. Google's ruling is heading the same way..

Jul 27, 2026 • Hospitality

Google's now selling placement inside the AI answer — starting with IHG, by invitation only - Google confirmed on its Q2 earnings call that the AI answer now carries paid slots — and IHG got the first hotel seat by invitation, not the open auction anyone could bid into.

Jul 27, 2026 • Hospitality

Sabre made your rooms readable by AI agents, not recommended by them - Two million hotels are readable inside Sabre's platform, and an agent chooses between them on the room descriptions, photos and rates loaded the day you connected.

Jul 27, 2026 • Hospitality

China just made Trip.com pay hotels back. - China's market regulator fined Trip.com 5.2 billion yuan, made it refund the deposits it withheld from hotels, and barred it from forcing them into exclusive deals — something no Booking or Expedia fine in the West has ever done.

Jul 27, 2026 • Hospitality

You count wholesale as a win. Some of it is a room you already had. - Every wholesale room-night lands in the occupancy report as a win. Some were guests you'd never have reached; the rest were rooms you'd have sold anyway — and telling them apart is the whole difference between using this channel and leaning on it..

Jul 27, 2026 •