Your wholesale contract still works. That's the problem. - A fixed rate, a package-only clause, a wholesaler who could pull a rule-breaker — the parts of the deal you never worried about. They were built for a world with edges, and the edges are gone..

Jul 22, 2026 • Hospitality

BCD is steering corporate bookings away from hotels that fumble virtual cards - BCD Travel and Conferma score hotels 1 to 10 on virtual-card acceptance — and BCD now steers corporate bookings to the winners, judged on payment, not the room.

Jul 22, 2026 • Travel

An AI is going to call your front desk. What it hears there becomes distribution. - At Sabre's hackathon this month, all three winning agents did the same thing: they called the front desk for what no website lists. The bet — agentic travel reaches your property through the one channel you never scripted..

Jul 22, 2026 • Hospitality

AI recommends the hotel it knows best, not the best one - BCG says optimize for AI search. Its own data shows why that mostly helps the OTAs.

Jul 22, 2026 • Hospitality

Dynamic rates are the lock-in, not the fix. - The stale wholesale rate frozen since last winter is real, and dynamic connectivity fixes it. The fix is a live wire into your systems that switches on with a click and off with a project — and that trade never makes the sales sheet..

Jul 22, 2026 • Hospitality