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Booking's Lola gets flight booking capabilities, $100M planned investment

By Abby Crotty | November 5, 2026

In addition to flight-booking capabilities, travelers can now integrate their Google calendar and Gmail accounts. Read More

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Inside the PayPal-Sabre-Mindtrip playbook for agentic travel booking

By PhocusWire | November 5, 2026

PayPal's Nixon Dinh and Sabre's Brad Johnson discuss the technology, infrastructure and trust requirements behind their agentic travel booking collaboration with Mindtrip and what other travel companies... Read More

News / Online

AI claims processing ranks last as a booking confidence driver

By Phocuswright Research | November 4, 2026

Phocuswright research asked travelers in 10 markets what would most boost their confidence to book, and a guaranteed full refund ranked as the top driver. Read More

News / Finance

Booking Holdings puts numbers behind AI assistant performance

By Cathy Walsh | November 3, 2026

The travel giant shared conversion metrics from its Priceline and Agoda AI assistants and reported a Q3 revenue decline tied to a potential FTC complaint. Read More

News / Technology

Agoda rolls out OpenAI-powered assistant

By Abby Crotty | November 3, 2026

The AI assistant also uses Gemini to pull content from Google Maps when users search for restaurants and points of interest. Read More

News / Technology

Meta's Muse launches in Singapore

By WIT | November 2, 2026

Trip.com, Agoda, Klook and Grab are among the personal AI agent’s early adopters. Read More

News / Startups

Where are they now? Checking in with the Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2026

By PhocusWire | November 2, 2026

We asked the 2026 cohort of Hot 25 Travel Startups to share their top three highlights from this year and their priorities going into 2027. Read More

News / Finance

Easol lands $30M to bring AI to experiences businesses

By Linda Fox | October 30, 2026

U.K.-based Easol said the funding had allowed it to develop an agentic tool for experiences businesses called Teammates. Read More

News / Distribution

In Eastern Europe, local OTAs beat the giants by going narrow

By Phocuswright Research | October 29, 2026

Booking.com leads accommodation across most of Eastern Europe, but homegrown OTAs are growing faster by localizing hard. Read More

News / Technology

Expedia Group expands AI features across Expedia, Hotels.com and Vrbo

By Abby Crotty | October 28, 2026

The online travel giant launched approximately 30 new and enhanced features, including expanded natural language search, as part of its fall 2026 product release. Read More

News / Technology

Etraveli Group adds MCP layer to flight content

By Linda Fox | October 28, 2026

The launch gives AI agents and developers access to the company’s air content using Claude, ChatGPT or other MCP-compatible platforms. Read More

News / Technology

Personal AI assistants could be re-shopping ‘landmine’ for hotels

By Matthew Parsons | October 28, 2026

Hotels and technology providers are now exploring the potential impact of re-shopping, where AI agents make a booking and later cancel and rebook if a better deal arises. Read More

News / Online

BWH rebrands to WorldHotels, unifies loyalty programs, boosts digital offering

By Linda Fox | October 27, 2026

The franchise hotel group’s website and mobile app have been rebuilt using the Adobe platform, enabling greater personalization and the ability to evolve the digital experience. Read More