Sarah · Sep 30, 2026 · 1 min read
Booking.com is adding its own payments and an SME business travel tool in India, where MakeMyTrip dominates.
HotelRunner's Autonomous Onboarding connects hotels to Expedia Group in under 24 hours.
Cloudbeds hotels will surface live rates to Meta's Muse AI agent, with bookings routed into the PMS from Q1 2027 in the US.
Agoda says its premium accommodation supply has doubled in four years, anchored by a September partnership with Capella Hotel Group.
Airbnb joins Vrbo and Marriott with a weather guarantee that pays guests €50 to €1,000 per day when it rains too much.
Skift argues sellers who wait on AI booking risk being "priced by someone else's integration."
The privately held UK package-holiday OTA sold £3.4 billion of holidays in the year to October 2025, per Companies House filings.
Indian OTA Ixigo says hotels, now 2.1% of GTV, could become its largest or second-largest category in four to five years.
Google's AI Mode began completing hotel bookings on October 1 as a price-feed mandate ended, cutting visibility for independents.
Some Vrbo listings will keep annual subscriptions after the October 29 switch to a 12% commission, but Vrbo says only a very small number qualify.
Klook has pulled its planned New York listing and says it will wait for better market conditions, with no new timeline given.
Airbnb.org is working with 211OC to house residents under mandatory evacuation orders from the Norte Fire in Orange County.