ChatGPT starts selling ads in Europe next week, but hotels can't buy them directly yet - OpenAI takes ChatGPT ads into 31 European countries next week, sold at first only through its own sales team and agency partners — and shown only to travelers on the free tiers.

Aug 19, 2026 • Hospitality

Google paid $10 million for a dead airline's booking curves - The deal still needs a bankruptcy judge's approval: eighteen years of one airline's rate decisions, going to the company that decides which hotels an AI names.

Aug 19, 2026 • Hospitality

The GDS books your best guest. You just think it's not for you. - Nearly a third of GDS hotel bookings are now high-spending leisure — yet most luxury resorts still write the channel off as corporate.

Aug 19, 2026 • Hospitality

The direct-booking success story hotels were told to copy is buying traffic again - Airbnb's quarterly brand and performance marketing has gone from $119 million to $512 million since 2021 while its 90% direct-traffic figure never moved — because brand-driven visits count as direct..

Aug 19, 2026 • Hospitality

Radisson's ChatGPT app is a loyalty tool wearing a discovery costume - You reach it by typing @RadissonHotels. A guest who does that has already chosen the brand — which is the one thing an independent can't put in a prompt..

Aug 19, 2026 • Hospitality