A hotel question is the expensive kind for an AI to answer - A single web search costs an AI assistant a cent. Comparing hotels takes ten or more, and somebody has already decided how many your guest's answer is allowed..

Sep 9, 2026 • Hospitality

In Europe, Google's hotel unit now shows everything except the rate - Google stripped live pricing, date filters and descriptive tags from the box built for hotels' own listings on Tuesday, twenty-two days before hotels have to start feeding it the rate themselves.

Sep 9, 2026 • Hospitality

Google and Microsoft agreed on how an AI agent finds your hotel - Their new standard lets your hotel publish a list of what an AI agent may do with your rooms. It doesn't say whether the agent should use your list or your OTA's.

Sep 9, 2026 •

Your AI visibility score measures the part OpenAI can change overnight - Reddit's share of ChatGPT citations fell 86% over four days in August, and the two firms that measure this for a living disagree on whether the model changed what it reads or only what it shows.

Sep 9, 2026 • Hospitality

The rental down the road can now take a booking for tonight - Vrbo has turned on same-day booking and two new cancellation tiers, closing the two gaps that used to send those guests to a hotel.

Sep 9, 2026 • Hospitality