Read in browser Today's Brief We keep winning. Nothing changes. - The parity clause is dead. Booking is a designated gatekeeper. Google has been fined €460 million over hotel search. Three wins for the industry, and not one of them put a guest back in your hands.. Jul 29, 2026 • Hospitality Booking Holdings wrote Kayak down. Now it's sending the brand to look for work in corporate travel. - The founders left to build Booking Holdings' AI bet, and this week the Kayak brand reappeared with a chatbot, hunting a defensible corner in corporate travel. Jul 29, 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 Amex GBT put business travel's AI inside Claude — and got the agent that actually books - Amex GBT wired the whole booking — air and hotel, in policy — into Claude, while the consumer chatbots still only recommend. Jul 29, 2026 • Hospitality Amazon's Alexa+ can finally close the booking in a chat — because it owns the wallet, not the room - Amazon revived its Wallet and aimed 180 million Prime members' stored cards at booking travel in a chat — the checkout ChatGPT and Google still can't close. Jul 29, 2026 • Hospitality IHG launched AI search and a new content platform its hotels must feed to be found - The search is live in a US beta; the content platform arrives over the coming months, and hotels will have to feed it floor plans, video, and current photos to be found. Jul 29, 2026 • Hospitality ... in case you missed it, our Daily Brief July 27, 2026 Advertising   Contact   Legal   © 2026 Hospitality.today™