Booking Holdings has launched Vayo, a personal AI travel service, with plans to invest $100 million in the business. The Seattle-based company opened a waitlist for its free, invite-only private beta on October 14…
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KFC Ditches Pepsi for Coca-Cola Across Its US Restaurants
Fried-chicken chain KFC reached an agreement to serve Coca-Cola Co. beverages in the US, dislodging PepsiCo Inc. as a longtime restaurant partner.
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1.1 million hotel-branded ads linked to ‘predatory OTAs’ in a single month
The run of bad press for artificial intelligence (AI) continues, and this time it’s the turn of “predatory” online travel agencies (OTAs). These are the websites that look like a legitimate hotel website but are far from the real deal…
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Booking.com says Europe's hotels don't depend on it
Booking.com's head of public affairs calls Europe's hotel distribution balanced, two weeks after an EU court upheld that Booking dominates online hotel sales
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California police department caught 'passive monitoring' hotel pool
A small California city came into national view this week after a late-night host publicized its police department’s widespread surveillance network and questioned why its cameras had recorded a hotel property and its pool “for hundreds of…
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Expedia Boosts Its Full-Year Sales Outlook on Strong Bookings
Expedia Group Inc. raised its annual sales forecast, signaling that consumers aren’t being deterred by higher hotel prices and airfare.
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Hotel room booking companies sued by San Francisco for offering ‘no value’ to consumers
If you’re traveling to San Francisco and get an online offer for a hotel reservation, double-check the price, city officials say in a newly filed lawsuit — it may be much more than the hotel is actually charging, with the extra sums pocketed by…
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Booking is copying Expedia's most durable asset
The company is folding Booking.com, Agoda, and Priceline into one B2B entity run by Agoda's CEO — a bet that the most valuable OTA business is the one hotels never see
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'At the end of the Tour all the teams will have the same number of hotel stars' says Christian Prudhomme
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Global Hotel Alliance reports double-digit revenue growth in Q2 delivering strong h1 results
Global Hotel Alliance (GHA), the world’s largest alliance of independent hotel brands, has announced double-digit growth across all key performance indicators in Q2 supporting positive momentum in H1 2026…
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The hotel industry’s biggest success story
The world's largest hotel may grab the headlines, but the hotel industry's greatest success story lies elsewhere.
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69-Year-Old Conman Arrested for Allegedly Defrauding 300 Luxury Hotels Across India Over 36 Years
In a case that has stunned the hospitality industry, a 69-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly cheating more than 300 luxury hotels across India over a period spanning nearly four decades…
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Kerzner International announces the promotion of Mattheos Georgiou to Head of Global Operations, further strengthening the company’s executive leadership team as it continues to expand its portfolio of pioneering hospitality brands around the world…
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Hotel chain latest to shutter business in Cuba in latest blow to island’s tourism
Spanish hotel chain Meliá is significantly reducing its operations in Cuba, joining a growing list of companies limiting their presence on the island…
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Booking site crackdown failed to cut online hotel prices – but unlocked cheaper deals offline
A major French policy designed to make hotel prices more competitive online may not have worked as intended, but it did unlock cheaper deals for customers booking directly with hotels.
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A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see
A hotel check-in system left more than 1 million customer passports, driver’s licenses, and selfie verification photos to the open web after a security lapse. The data is now offline after TechCrunch alerted the company responsible…
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‘Not worth compromising’: Why some Sydney restaurants are saying no to delivery
The demand for food delivery and takeaway might be on the rise, but for venues like RaRa Ramen, Porteno and LuMi, it just “doesn’t make sense”.
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Booking.com breach raises red flags for insurers as travel scams evolve
Data breach exposes customer booking details and opens the door to highly targeted social engineering incidents
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