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 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 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™