Your rate now competes with a points price inside Google's answer - Google switched on hotel booking inside AI Mode on Thursday, with Google Pay at the end of it — and Choice, Hilton and Wyndham are the first hotels a traveler can price in points there.

Aug 28, 2026 • Hospitality

Google cut Europe out of its new travel tools - The footnotes exclude EEA users from the flight alerts and part of the points pricing, and hotel booking is US-only — but every one of those conditions describes where the guest is searching from, not where the room is.

Aug 28, 2026 • Hospitality

The newest reseller of your rooms is a banking app with your guest's transaction history - Revolut, the European banking app with 70 million customers, sources its rooms from Nuitée, Expedia and VRBO. The AI it bought to choose between them knows what your guest spent all year..

Aug 28, 2026 • Hospitality

Your guest will write one review - Booking.com asks for it 48 hours after she leaves, automatically, from every guest who booked through them. Before that clock starts, you can win the more valuable one on Google..

Aug 28, 2026 • Hospitality