Hotel connectivity stopped being plumbing - Within a day of each other, Expedia and RateHawk reframed connectivity as the condition for competing in hotel distribution — and the control hotels say they won't give up is the price of entry.

Jul 17, 2026 • Hospitality

Fora is inside Virtuoso — and just raised $60 million at a $1 billion valuation - The host agency now has 15,000 advisors, most of them new to the business. Any one of them can send you a booking that carries your Virtuoso amenity..

Jul 17, 2026 • Hospitality

Corporate bookings up 11%, spend up 21%. The gap is where your rate lives. - Navan's half-year figures show corporate hotel bookings rising and spend per trip rising faster still — the traveler your negotiated rate was written against is not the one checking in.

Jul 17, 2026 • Travel

The 39-day commission wait isn't Onyx. It's hotels not funding. - Rocco Forte now pays advisors within 48 hours of processing. That leg already took a few days. The other five weeks sit in hotel accounting — and ASTA has said it will name the late payers..

Jul 17, 2026 • Hospitality

Your bid engine spends most on the rooms you would have sold anyway - A metasearch bidding vendor shipped a product this week on the premise that platform bid automation pushes your budget toward the properties already winning — and said so in its own marketing.

Jul 17, 2026 • Hospitality