Read in browser Today's Brief Hotel connectivity stopped being plumbing - Within a day of each other, Expedia and RateHawk reframed connectivity as the condition for competing in hotel distribution — and the control hotels say they won't give up is the price of entry. Jul 17, 2026 • Hospitality Fora is inside Virtuoso — and just raised $60 million at a $1 billion valuation - The host agency now has 15,000 advisors, most of them new to the business. Any one of them can send you a booking that carries your Virtuoso amenity.. Jul 17, 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 Corporate bookings up 11%, spend up 21%. The gap is where your rate lives. - Navan's half-year figures show corporate hotel bookings rising and spend per trip rising faster still — the traveler your negotiated rate was written against is not the one checking in. Jul 17, 2026 • Travel The 39-day commission wait isn't Onyx. It's hotels not funding. - Rocco Forte now pays advisors within 48 hours of processing. That leg already took a few days. The other five weeks sit in hotel accounting — and ASTA has said it will name the late payers.. Jul 17, 2026 • Hospitality Your bid engine spends most on the rooms you would have sold anyway - A metasearch bidding vendor shipped a product this week on the premise that platform bid automation pushes your budget toward the properties already winning — and said so in its own marketing. Jul 17, 2026 • Hospitality ... in case you missed it, our Daily Brief July 15, 2026 Advertising   Contact   Legal   © 2026 Hospitality.today™