Hotels now pay to be looked at - For three decades the OTA absorbed the cost of being looked at, and the hotel paid only when a guest booked. Cut out the middle, and the hotel inherits the look..

Jun 25, 2026 • Hospitality

The agentic layer is about to stress-test hotel commercial teams - Sales, marketing, revenue, and distribution are collapsing into one function — and what a hotel can win in the agentic layer now turns on whether they move together.

Jun 25, 2026 • Hospitality

Navan buys the partner it used to book through - $185 billion in Brazilian corporate travel, and Navan's route to it is to stop booking through a partner and own the rail — one more stretch of the corporate path moving inside a single platform.

Jun 25, 2026 • Travel

Expedia TAAP wants to be the agency's system of record - A real-time feed of booking and earnings data wired straight into agencies' finance systems — Expedia extending from the booking it gets paid for into the back office that runs on it.

Jun 25, 2026 • Hospitality

OTAs have passed search as Europe's trip-planning starting point - Across the UK, France, and Germany, online travel agencies have overtaken general search as the primary online resource for planning trip components — the discovery layer consolidating onto the intermediary before AI changes anything.

Jun 25, 2026 • Hospitality

Booking.com doesn't need to own the independent hotel. It needs to own how it's found. - Agentic AI was supposed to free independents from the platforms. Booking's own numbers suggest the opposite.

Jun 25, 2026 • Hospitality