Read in browser Today's Brief On Google's AI, the GDS is the one channel that still answers to you - Your rate, your cancellation window, your restrictions: on the OTA an algorithm decides how they're shown, discounted, and ranked; on the GDS they go out as you wrote them. Aug 12, 2026 • Hospitality Booking.com is already buying ads inside ChatGPT - OpenAI switched on cost-per-click bidding in April, and the biggest OTA in the world is in the test group, buying position at $3 to $5 a click inside a channel that has yet to deliver 1% of its room nights. Aug 12, 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 HBX put 250,000 hotels into Sabre. It didn't need to ask any of them. - Your negotiated corporate rate and a bed bank's net rate now sit in the same business-travel marketplace. Aug 12, 2026 • Hospitality The chains' growth now comes from hotels that are already open. Yours is on the list. - Four in ten hotels Marriott opened this year already existed, and Hilton built its 25th brand to go after the ones still flying their own name.. Aug 12, 2026 • Hospitality Onyx built a lookup for late commissions - Any advisor can now look up a booking and see where the commission is stuck — fewer chases you didn't deserve, and the ones you do get come from someone who already knows you haven't paid. Aug 12, 2026 • Hospitality ... in case you missed it, our Daily Brief August 10, 2026 Advertising   Contact   Legal   © 2026 Hospitality.today™