Read in browser Today's Brief 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 Metadesk The one metric quietly costing you direct bookings The metric most hoteliers ignore is the one quietly handing rooms to OTAs. Your reports won't flag it, but your revenue feels it. See what you missed. Download now 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 ... in case you missed it, our Daily Brief September 7, 2026 Advertising   Contact   Legal   © 2026 Hospitality.today™