Google signals deeper AI ambitions in travel - As agentic systems expand, Google eyes travel, commerce, and in-car experiences as next growth frontiers.

Oct 30, 2025 • Hospitality

Claude AI crawlers explained for hotel websites - How Anthropic’s bots influence hotel visibility, distribution and content control in the ai search era.

Feb 26, 2026 • Hospitality

OTAs spend more than $14B on marketing in 2022 - Expedia Group, Booking Holdings, Airbnb and Trip.com Group doled out a record amount of money to capture the attention of consumers.

Mar 28, 2023 • Hospitality

Climate change upends summer travel - Destinations once ideal for summer travel are now on the decline because of extreme heat and other effects of climate change.

Jul 3, 2023 • Travel

Expedia Group lays off staff in U.S. and abroad - The company has laid off staff in multiple departments, including travel operations, support, IT, recruiting, marketing and B2B services.

Jul 19, 2023 •

McKinsey on what AI means for travel - The travel industry is unquestionably going to be significantly disrupted by AI, according to a new report by McKinsey.

Nov 3, 2023 • Travel

Hotels drive demand by marketing to social, niche groups - Hotels are paying much more attention to marketing to niche groups of guests.

Nov 8, 2023 • Marketing

Hoteliers too ambitious about the future of direct bookings? - Skift's Hotel Distribution Outlook 2024 predicts that by 2030, direct digital channels will surpass OTAs as the main distribution method for hotels.

Nov 14, 2024 • Hospitality