Everything the OTA sends you about your guest expires - Seven days for the address, twelve months for the card. The standard written for AI agents carries contact details with no expiry at all — just not to you..

Aug 24, 2026 • Hospitality

Trivago's own checkout grew 24x in a year. It is suing Google over exactly this. - Trivago's slide for investors now puts trivago among the top five sellers on trivago. The rooms in that checkout come from Expedia, which also owns the company..

Aug 24, 2026 • Hospitality

Sabre sold its hotel technology business. Now hotels are its growth story. - Sabre's air bookings grew one percent last quarter. Its hotel bookings grew eight, and the money those rooms bring in grew eleven..

Aug 24, 2026 • Hospitality

Mindtrip raised $19 million to sit between your guest and the search box - It shipped flight booking in May and hotel booking in July. A hotel reaches it only through the OTA contracts it already holds..

Aug 24, 2026 • Hospitality

Your AI recommendation is not for sale. But a resort like yours can earn it. - Every tool sold to get you into ChatGPT moves nothing. What moves the recommendation is free, earned, and favors lifestyle resorts like yours..

Aug 21, 2026 • Hospitality

Nobody closed the file on a hotel that no longer exists - The Mandarin Oriental Miami was imploded on April 12. Four months on, momondo lists rooms from $415 a night and TripAdvisor still ranks it #23 of 154 hotels in Miami. No AI invented that..

Aug 21, 2026 • Hospitality

Agoda now decides which of your reviews a traveler reads - Agoda's new Partner Portal runs your guest reviews through AI and puts what it calls curated review highlights on your property page, and the release does not say who does the curating.

Aug 21, 2026 • Hospitality

Booking a business trip is becoming a message, and your hotel still has to be on the list - FCM, the corporate travel arm of Flight Centre, has put conversational booking inside Teams and Slack. Two older gates still decide whether your hotel shows up in it..

Aug 21, 2026 • Hospitality