Google’s PMax gets smarter for hotels, working alongside Hotel Ads - How Google’s upgraded PMax adds value across the funnel while Hotel Ads remain the core conversion engine.

Dec 1, 2025 • Marketing

Who gets to book travel: humans or their AI? - The legal battle over whether autonomous agents can browse, compare, and purchase travel without asking retailers first.

Dec 10, 2025 • Hospitality

What hotel tech leaders say AI will disrupt first in 2026 - Hospitality.net’s panel reveals how hotels are quietly rebuilding their foundations.

Jan 8, 2026 • Hospitality

Your ChatGPT recommendation is fetched by two scrapers you've never heard of - A researcher read ChatGPT's own network traffic and found it pulls the open web through two commercial scrapers, Bright Data and Oxylabs — reading your hotel's site for the facts, and someone else's page for the recommendation.

Jul 6, 2026 • Hospitality

Kayak exits business of operating hotels under its brand - The company won't be opening any new hotels near you, but still hopes to make a go of building a hotel tech business.

Apr 3, 2023 • Hospitality

Airbnb's muted outlook signals prices weighing on travel - Rising travel costs and a murky economic outlook are beginning to weigh on consumer appetite for trips.

May 10, 2023 • Travel

Corporate demand for serviced apartments continues to rise - Sector continues to grow its share of corporate accommodation spend and alternative accommodation is also gaining traction among business travelers.

Jun 23, 2023 • Travel

How the internet screwed up air travel - When everyone became their own travel agent, airlines began cutting costs to keep prices down - sacrificing convenience and comfort in the process.

Jul 4, 2023 • Travel