Read in browser Today's Brief Hotels losing pricing control: You sell the room. The channel is taking the upsell. - An AI agent that knows what your guest spent last year will offer her the suite, the spa and the late check-out before she ever reaches you, at its price and its margin. Oct 2, 2026 • Hospitality Booking, Expedia and Airbnb want the trip. Your room is the way in. - The OTAs are packaging the whole trip for whoever builds the next front door, AI agents included. Oct 2, 2026 • Hospitality reconline The GDS partner of choice for modern hotel tech reconline partners with hotel tech platforms to make GDS distribution simple, scalable, and commercially relevant for independent hotels. One connection, full GDS reach — trusted by 80+ tech partners. Explore the Partner Program Your guests wrote the reviews, and Google now decides who gets to read all of them. - Google Maps now asks visitors to sign in before it shows all of a hotel's reviews, while Google's own Gemini tools keep reading behind the wall. Oct 2, 2026 • Hospitality Tripadvisor sells fewer clicks to hotels every quarter, and charges more for each one. - Tripadvisor's hotel revenue fell 23% last quarter as free search traffic dried up, but the reviews AI assistants quote about your hotel still live there. Oct 2, 2026 • Hospitality Your hotel already has a carbon score in the corporate booking tool, and it probably isn't yours. - Concur sorts hotels by lowest emissions. Without your own figure, you're ranked on a regional average built mostly from chain data.. Oct 2, 2026 • Hospitality ... in case you missed it, our Daily Brief September 30, 2026 Advertising   Contact   Legal   © 2026 Hospitality.today™