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Read → Booking Holdings backs Lola, the new bet from Kayak's founders to sell travel through AI agents. A fresh playbook for hotel direct sales.
Read → The payments platform claims travel already drives over 50% of its transaction volume, growing around 10% daily. The signal for hotel tech founders is clear.
Read → BLLA has unveiled the full program for BHOC 2026, a small-format owner conference on October 19-20 in Westlake Village, California, built around differentiation, guest experience and revenue strategy for independent hotels.
Read → ChatGPT and Gemini shape hotel recommendations before guests reach your booking engine. If your data isn't clean and consistent, you're losing bookings to hotels with sharper profiles.
Read → Sloan Dean, former Remington CEO, is building AI Hospitality Group around an AI-native stack, profit-share fees and a roadmap to 75+ agents targeting 500bps GOP.
Read → Rick Posey puts the spotlight on a gap most hotels ignore: nobody validates what the AI recommends before it touches rates, staffing or guest flows.
Read → Hospitality Net publishes a practical guide to personalisation that starts with anonymous website visits and ends after checkout. The lesson: most hotels already have the data, they just don't connect it.
Read → Revenue consultant Jon Siberry explains on Hospitality Net when flash sales fill distressed inventory and when they cannibalize direct bookings and erode ADR.
Read → Booking.com's merchant payment model now lets the platform sell below the rate hotels load, and about one in five independent room nights is affected. The fix starts with a clear direct-booking strategy.
Read → Growing chains in APAC, the Middle East and Africa are deploying AI before unifying their data layer. Without that backbone, pilots stay pilots.
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