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 tambourine Welcome to the end of booking engine fees. With Tambourine One, the booking engine is built directly into the website experience, eliminating the fall-off between website and booking engine. And best of all, we don't charge transaction fees or commissions, so hoteliers keep more of their revenue. Learn more 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™