Lastminute.com is replacing human curation with AI across its packaging stack - A 25% workforce reduction funds the shift — and changes how hotel inventory gets selected and priced on the platform.

Jun 18, 2026 • Hospitality

Retail AI traffic now converts 54% better than non-AI. Travel is 18 months behind. - Adobe's May data shows what happens to hotel AI traffic once the channel matures.

Jun 18, 2026 • Hospitality

The hotel still owns its price. It just stopped setting it. - Revenue management slid from judgment to a rented model that runs on its own — and the people accountable can no longer say why the rate moved.

Jun 17, 2026 • Hospitality

Claude was the threat. Booking made it the product. - Priceline built the new Penny on Claude, putting the agent at the front of its own booking funnel.

Jun 17, 2026 • Hospitality

In AI search, hotel brand beats guest reviews - A study of 4,545 ChatGPT prompts found AI recommends big chains far beyond their room count — and a hotel's review score barely moves whether it appears.

Jun 17, 2026 • Hospitality

Oracle is giving away the AI its rivals want to sell - Opera Cloud Assistant ships free to the PMS base that already includes Wyndham, Accor and Hyatt — which makes AI a hard thing for anyone else to charge for.

Jun 17, 2026 • Hospitality

Amadeus wants to be the middleman AI agents were meant to remove - Its play is a seat in Google's agentic-commerce protocol and the reservation rail beneath it — the same position it holds in legacy distribution.

Jun 17, 2026 • Hospitality

Marriott builds an AI search where it controls the answer - Ask Bonvoy runs only on Marriott's own verified property data — a closed front door from a chain the open AI models already favor.

Jun 17, 2026 • Hospitality