Read in browser Today's Brief The law that just fined Google has been running on Booking.com since December 2024. - Booking lost the rate parity clause in December 2024, and the money moved to paid placement. Google's ruling is heading the same way.. Jul 27, 2026 • Hospitality Google's now selling placement inside the AI answer — starting with IHG, by invitation only - Google confirmed on its Q2 earnings call that the AI answer now carries paid slots — and IHG got the first hotel seat by invitation, not the open auction anyone could bid into. Jul 27, 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 Sabre made your rooms readable by AI agents, not recommended by them - Two million hotels are readable inside Sabre's platform, and an agent chooses between them on the room descriptions, photos and rates loaded the day you connected. Jul 27, 2026 • Hospitality China just made Trip.com pay hotels back. - China's market regulator fined Trip.com 5.2 billion yuan, made it refund the deposits it withheld from hotels, and barred it from forcing them into exclusive deals — something no Booking or Expedia fine in the West has ever done. Jul 27, 2026 • Hospitality You count wholesale as a win. Some of it is a room you already had. - Every wholesale room-night lands in the occupancy report as a win. Some were guests you'd never have reached; the rest were rooms you'd have sold anyway — and telling them apart is the whole difference between using this channel and leaning on it.. Jul 27, 2026 • ... in case you missed it, our Daily Brief July 24, 2026 Advertising   Contact   Legal   © 2026 Hospitality.today™