The rental down the road can now take a booking for tonight - Vrbo has turned on same-day booking and two new cancellation tiers, closing the two gaps that used to send those guests to a hotel.

Sep 9, 2026 • Hospitality

Booking.com's fraud checks only look at listings that are already live - A British consumer group listed the prime minister's residence on Booking.com in minutes and took a payment for it. Airbnb checks who you are before your listing goes live. Booking.com says it may..

Sep 7, 2026 • Hospitality

Three quarters of Expedia's guest replies go out untouched. Yours doesn't have to. - Expedia drafts a reply to your guest, customized to your property, and says more than three quarters are sent with no edits at all. The edit box is open. Almost no hotel is using it..

Sep 7, 2026 • Hospitality

Nobody sold you into the bank's app. You gave permission years ago. - The wholesale contract you signed for winter volume permits onward resale. That clause is now how your rate reaches a bank app, priced in points, behind a login you'll never have..

Sep 7, 2026 • Hospitality

The GDS terminal is fifteen percent of the channel - Sabre booked 12 million hotel reservations last quarter, 8% more than a year earlier. Almost none of it happened on the screen hoteliers picture when they hear the word GDS..

Sep 7, 2026 • Hospitality

Spotnana bought Troop to make the meetings RFP a booking - Spotnana acquired meetings platform Troop on August 26, and Steve Singh's stated goal is the RFP folded into the booking pipe — the group inquiry your sales office negotiates is the target.

Sep 2, 2026 • Hospitality

Hilton joined Google's new checkout and kept its own - Four days after Google switched on hotel booking inside its AI answer, Hilton announced it is in Google AI Mode, ChatGPT and soon Claude — and every one of those paths ends with the traveler back on Hilton.com.

Sep 2, 2026 • Hospitality

Hotels.com built a business travel mode. The rewards it pays come off your commission. - Ten employer-paid hotel nights a year is exactly what carries a business traveler into One Key's second tier, and the status he buys with his company's money pays out on his own vacations.

Sep 2, 2026 • Hospitality