RateHawk's fastest growth is bookings that never touch its screens - RateHawk reports API bookings up 78% in the first half, nearly three times its partner growth — the newest big wholesaler now grows through other companies' platforms, not new relationships.

Aug 31, 2026 • Hospitality

Your guest will write one review - Booking.com asks for it 48 hours after she leaves, automatically, from every guest who booked through them. Before that clock starts, you can win the more valuable one on Google..

Aug 28, 2026 • Hospitality

Google cut Europe out of its new travel tools - The footnotes exclude EEA users from the flight alerts and part of the points pricing, and hotel booking is US-only — but every one of those conditions describes where the guest is searching from, not where the room is.

Aug 28, 2026 • Hospitality

The newest reseller of your rooms is a banking app with your guest's transaction history - Revolut, the European banking app with 70 million customers, sources its rooms from Nuitée, Expedia and VRBO. The AI it bought to choose between them knows what your guest spent all year..

Aug 28, 2026 • Hospitality

Your rate now competes with a points price inside Google's answer - Google switched on hotel booking inside AI Mode on Thursday, with Google Pay at the end of it — and Choice, Hilton and Wyndham are the first hotels a traveler can price in points there.

Aug 28, 2026 • Hospitality

The chains have a new offer for independent hotels - Nearly half of Marriott's signings across Europe, the Middle East and Africa last year were existing hotels joining. You keep your name, your look and your restaurant. What you hand over is the guest..

Aug 26, 2026 • Hospitality

The email you want is the one she gives you for a reason - Booking.com takes her details off your screen thirty days after checkout. The address she gives your concierge for the eight o'clock table was never theirs to take..

Aug 26, 2026 • Hospitality

An independent has three ways into the AI booking channel. Two of them are somebody else's. - The chains and the OTAs are already inside Google's test. An independent buys in on a net rate, an agent commission, or a franchise fee..

Aug 26, 2026 • Hospitality