Read in browser Today's Brief Hotels are building the AI discovery layer. OTAs are harvesting it. - Why the eligibility infrastructure hotels are funding routes AI-generated demand to the intermediaries they're trying to bypass. Jun 24, 2026 • Hospitality Expedia's autonomous distribution asks hotels to cede control - Expedia is making full connectivity the eligibility condition for the autonomous layer it intends to run. It is also the control a third of hoteliers say they won't hand over.. Jun 24, 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 Machine-readable supply is the agentic booking condition - RateHawk and Phocuswright name standardized supply as the precondition for agentic booking. The readiness is being built one layer removed from the hotel.. Jun 24, 2026 • Hospitality Navan pulls the hotel group RFP into its platform - Hotel RFPs, room blocks, and venue sourcing now run inside Navan's managed travel platform — turning the group sales relationship into a line item in someone else's interface. Jun 24, 2026 • In AI search, the hotel's own website barely counts - AI assistants cite the hotel's own website as their source under 10% of the time. The recommendation is built from OTAs, review sites, and editorial guides instead.. Jun 24, 2026 • Hospitality Marriott's price guarantee now stops at two guests - Marriott's Best Rate Guarantee now matches third-party rates only for bookings of up to two guests — carving out families and groups, the segment most prone to OTA leakage.. Jun 24, 2026 • Hospitality ... in case you missed it, our Daily Brief June 23, 2026 Advertising   Contact   Legal   © 2026 Hospitality.today™