Corporate travel is growing on rate, not on travelers - Marriott's corporate room nights fell last quarter while its rate rose. The discounts hotels still grant for volume are priced for a customer who stopped sending more people..

Aug 14, 2026 • Travel

The hotel side of the corporate RFP just started automating too - Accor will hand its hotels AI-generated prices for their corporate bids from next year — leaving the hotel that still sets its number by hand bidding against one that doesn't.

Aug 14, 2026 • Hospitality

Agoda's new bot picks which of your rooms the guest books - The chat assistant it launched this week reads your rate plans, asks the traveler what she wants, and names a Best pick by criteria nobody has published.

Aug 14, 2026 • Hospitality

Your luxury guest's shortlist is curated by her card company - American Express added 351 hotels to its Fine Hotels + Resorts and Hotel Collection programs this week, picked by a curation team reading what premium cardmembers spend, against criteria it has never published.

Aug 14, 2026 • Hospitality

Booking.com is already buying ads inside ChatGPT - OpenAI switched on cost-per-click bidding in April, and the biggest OTA in the world is in the test group, buying position at $3 to $5 a click inside a channel that has yet to deliver 1% of its room nights.

Aug 12, 2026 • Hospitality

HBX put 250,000 hotels into Sabre. It didn't need to ask any of them. - Your negotiated corporate rate and a bed bank's net rate now sit in the same business-travel marketplace.

Aug 12, 2026 • Hospitality

On Google's AI, the GDS is the one channel that still answers to you - Your rate, your cancellation window, your restrictions: on the OTA an algorithm decides how they're shown, discounted, and ranked; on the GDS they go out as you wrote them.

Aug 12, 2026 • Hospitality

Onyx built a lookup for late commissions - Any advisor can now look up a booking and see where the commission is stuck — fewer chases you didn't deserve, and the ones you do get come from someone who already knows you haven't paid.

Aug 12, 2026 • Hospitality