The travel industry, digested. Curated opinion on hotels, airlines, OTAs and travel-tech.
Read → SoftBank Robotics will showcase four AI cooking and serving robots at EquipHotel 2026. Europe's foodservice staffing crunch opens the door.
Read → United rolls out its three-tier premium fare model on domestic and short-haul international routes. The bet: business travellers will pay more for flexibility even on short trips.
Read → A study of 6,110 hotel appearances in AI answers reveals that 95.8% of recommendations change between identical queries. If your agency promises to control that, ask how.
Read → Choice pays $130 million for half a million RV users. The question is whether that audience ends up sleeping in a Comfort Inn.
Read → Choice opens six upscale hotels across Cambria and Ascend Collection, pushing past 300 open US properties with nearly 150 in the pipeline. The midscale brand wants to move up a tier.
Read → The largest independent hotel management company in the Middle East and Africa accelerates expansion with nine signings across six countries and eyes 100 hotels by 2029.
Read → Vrbo raises host commissions, Booking tests Lola with a double-sided fee model, Expedia cuts 58 jobs and non-room revenue grows 35%.
Read → Meyer Jabara Hotels builds its fall group sales on long-standing university relationships, overlapping demand segments and prospecting a year ahead.
Read → Winnow unveils Foresight, a mobile tool that anticipates what guests will order before service. Across 13 Hilton hotels in EMEA, overproduction dropped by up to 69%.
Read → The Mallorcan chain extends its child safeguarding framework to a fifth country after more than 13 years in The Code, with Top Member status in Spain and Mexico.
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