Read in browser Today's Brief ChatGPT starts selling ads in Europe next week, but hotels can't buy them directly yet - OpenAI takes ChatGPT ads into 31 European countries next week, sold at first only through its own sales team and agency partners — and shown only to travelers on the free tiers. Aug 19, 2026 • Hospitality Google paid $10 million for a dead airline's booking curves - The deal still needs a bankruptcy judge's approval: eighteen years of one airline's rate decisions, going to the company that decides which hotels an AI names. Aug 19, 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 The GDS books your best guest. You just think it's not for you. - Nearly a third of GDS hotel bookings are now high-spending leisure — yet most luxury resorts still write the channel off as corporate. Aug 19, 2026 • Hospitality The direct-booking success story hotels were told to copy is buying traffic again - Airbnb's quarterly brand and performance marketing has gone from $119 million to $512 million since 2021 while its 90% direct-traffic figure never moved — because brand-driven visits count as direct.. Aug 19, 2026 • Hospitality Radisson's ChatGPT app is a loyalty tool wearing a discovery costume - You reach it by typing @RadissonHotels. A guest who does that has already chosen the brand — which is the one thing an independent can't put in a prompt.. Aug 19, 2026 • Hospitality ... in case you missed it, our Daily Brief August 17, 2026 Advertising   Contact   Legal   © 2026 Hospitality.today™