Your wholesaler isn't worried about AI - RateHawk's Felix Shpilman isn't worried about AI: it takes the recommendation and leaves the booking to his pipe, so the agent is just the next buyer in his line.

Jul 20, 2026 • Hospitality

Travel's creator economy quietly became a room-distribution channel - Affiliate is now creators' top income source, because a commission link books rooms a brand can finally count — and on TikTok Go those rooms are yours.

Jul 20, 2026 • Hospitality

Hilton is pointing 250 million members at retention and calling it discovery - Chris Nassetta wants next-gen AI to mine Hilton's 250 million loyalty members for tailored offers. That sharpens how Hilton talks to the guests it already has — and does nothing to win the traveler asking an AI which hotel to book.

Jul 20, 2026 • Hospitality

A room full of hotel CIOs just described your biggest advantage - At a closed-door session, the tech chiefs of Radisson, Wyndham and Choice spelled out what keeps a big brand slow — split budgets, the franchisee vote, tangled data ownership. An independent owner has none of it..

Jul 20, 2026 • Hospitality

Hotel connectivity stopped being plumbing - Within a day of each other, Expedia and RateHawk reframed connectivity as the condition for competing in hotel distribution — and the control hotels say they won't give up is the price of entry.

Jul 17, 2026 • Hospitality

Fora is inside Virtuoso — and just raised $60 million at a $1 billion valuation - The host agency now has 15,000 advisors, most of them new to the business. Any one of them can send you a booking that carries your Virtuoso amenity..

Jul 17, 2026 • Hospitality

The 39-day commission wait isn't Onyx. It's hotels not funding. - Rocco Forte now pays advisors within 48 hours of processing. That leg already took a few days. The other five weeks sit in hotel accounting — and ASTA has said it will name the late payers..

Jul 17, 2026 • Hospitality

Your bid engine spends most on the rooms you would have sold anyway - A metasearch bidding vendor shipped a product this week on the premise that platform bid automation pushes your budget toward the properties already winning — and said so in its own marketing.

Jul 17, 2026 • Hospitality