Read in browser Today's Brief A hotel sells one price. The web returns a dozen. - Where onward distribution quietly strips a hotel of its own rate — and the one channel that hands it back intact.. Jun 16, 2026 • Hospitality American Express paid $700 million for a booking platform it isn't buying for the bookings - Resy, Tock, and now TheFork — the card network is assembling a dining discovery layer, and the buyer, not the seller, is the part worth watching if you sell rooms. Jun 16, 2026 • Hospitality Metadesk What if you could see your hotel metasearch performance graded like a report card? Your free audit evaluates your property's ad position, parity, and price accuracy, then provides a clear action plan to capture more direct bookings. Request your hotel metasearch audit now. Get my free audit Expedia learned where AI breaks. It wasn't the model. - A retired booking chatbot points hotels to the part of AI that's actually hard — the grounded data underneath it. Jun 16, 2026 • Hospitality Hilton built an AI concierge to keep guests it admits are already leaving - At NYU's investment forum, the same executives touting in-house AI planners conceded that guests now begin their searches inside models the industry will never own. Jun 16, 2026 • Hospitality IHG is answering franchisee fee pressure with a tech payoff it won't quantify - Eight years rebuilding the stack, and the relief IHG offers owners — sharper pricing, personalization at scale — reads as real across the estate and invisible at the property that pays the fee. Jun 16, 2026 • Hospitality Cendyn builds AI-visibility scoring into its CMS - It scores how a hotel appears in AI answers — against simulated prompts, not real ones. Jun 16, 2026 • Hospitality ... in case you missed it, our Daily Brief June 15, 2026 Advertising   Contact   Legal   © 2026 Hospitality.today™