The half of corporate travel that's growing skips the RFP - The corporate booking that's growing is captured by the channel, not the contract — open-web spend dragged into a managed tool and booked at whatever rate shows up.

Jul 13, 2026 • Hospitality

Booking is copying Expedia's most durable asset - The company is folding Booking.com, Agoda, and Priceline into one B2B entity run by Agoda's CEO — a bet that the most valuable OTA business is the one hotels never see.

Jul 13, 2026 • Hospitality

Your hotel's AI visibility score is mostly noise - Ask AI the same question and the brands it names change more than 99% of the time — yet the dashboard sold to your hotel reports a single reading as fact.

Jul 13, 2026 • Marketing

Google folds tours and events into its AI-run travel ad engine - A new open beta extends Search Campaigns for Travel to Things to Do and Events, with AI Max handling the matching — the same consolidation Booking just made with BKNG Ads.

Jul 13, 2026 • Hospitality

The AI audience stopped speaking English. The retrieval didn't. - More than half of ChatGPT's users now work in another language — yet its background search still runs in English, and those English sources favor global chains over your hotel.

Jul 13, 2026 • Hospitality

Google starts labeling AI-made ads, just before the EU AI Act makes it mandatory - A new "How this ad was made" tag hits Search, YouTube, and Discover — automatic for Google's own AI tools, self-declared for everyone else.

Jul 13, 2026 • Hospitality