Social media marketing for hotels - Social media has become essential in how travelers choose their next stay, making it a critical tool for hotels to enhance their appeal and visibility.

Mar 14, 2024 • Marketing

Booking.com customers book more vacation rentals - OTA adopts U.S.-centric strategy to meet growing demand for short-term rentals from families and international travelers.

Jun 6, 2024 • Hospitality

The problems with travel brand marketing - Travel marketing is stuck in the past, driven by ego and outdated methods, missing opportunities for growth in favor of flashy events and trends.

Nov 13, 2024 • Hospitality

Inside the rise of female solo travel - Why more women are choosing independence over group travel - and how the travel world is evolving to meet them on the road.

Mar 25, 2025 • Travel

Spain’s tourism surge faces growing challenges - A new Phocuswright analysis predicts that the double-digit growth rate Spain has been experiencing will not be sustainable over the long term.

May 6, 2025 • Travel

OTAs pushed into back-end fulfillment roles - Booking.com and Expedia risk becoming invisible fulfillment layers as ChatGPT and Gemini take over planning and booking.

Nov 6, 2025 • Hospitality

Uber bought a hotel tab the year it stopped mattering - The super app push reinforces the booking channel at the moment the deciding has moved upstream.

May 4, 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