The Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) project added a draft Lodging Booking specification to its GitHub repository on Sept. 25, and Google's developer documentation states the company plans to adopt t…
Coastal Assembly, an MIT spinout that raised $4.4 million this summer, is scaling up an AI-designed artificial reef system after a Marriott resort deployment in the Maldives grew a 300-foot shoreline'…
Google is testing agentic hotel bookings within its AI Mode search interface in the United States, partnering with Booking.com, Expedia, Marriott, and IHG to let users complete reservations without le…
Google has integrated airline and hotel award prices into AI Mode in Search, allowing users to search and book flights and hotels with points, with initial partners including American Airlines, Alaska…
Microsoft Corp. paid out $6.8 billion in dividends on September 10, 2026, but its fiscal 2026 capital expenditures of $115.948 billion were about 4.4 times that amount, highlighting the company's mass…
Jim Dausch, global chief digital and technology officer at Yum Brands, is deploying AI and automation across 63,000 restaurants, including a data-driven system that improved Pizza Hut delivery tempera…
Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre reported that AI demand and adoption are fueling a travel booking stock boom, with shares of Trivago (TRVG), Airbnb (ABNB), Expedia (EXPE), Delta Air…
TravelAI, a Vancouver-based firm operating under UpNext Ventures, acquired the Sonder brand out of bankruptcy on July 13, 2025, for its domain authority and brand recognition, but left behind the leas…
At the Cannes Lions Festival, consumer executives from e.l.f. Beauty, Marriott, Gap, and Tapestry indicated that US consumers are feeling slightly better than in the first quarter and spending more br…
Creditors have appointed AlixPartners as receiver and Savills as sole agent to sell the dual-branded Sheraton complex in Hong Kong, a 1,219-room hotel on Lantau Island seized from developer Shimao Gro…
Iran's World Cup team is staying at a Marriott hotel in Tijuana, Mexico, where fans gather to show support despite political tensions and travel restrictions imposed by the U.S. The team was forced to…
Marc Babin, a hospitality marketer turned podcast builder, argues that the flood of content online has not killed the value of content marketing, as 70% of content is noise, making authentic content m…
The travel industry has moved from discussing artificial intelligence to deploying it in production, with operators across hotels, airlines, online travel agencies, and theme parks now running AI prog…