Good Sunday afternoon from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, February 13, 2026, is below. What started out as a quiet week in the online travel industry changed considerably as the week
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A Week of Rising Pressure in Online Travel as Pricing Rules Advance and Platform Competition Evolves
Good Sunday afternoon from Seattle . . . For those of you who follow American football, Happy Superbowl Sunday (apparently the number one sports betting day of the year). Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, February…
Accor Makes Its Move in AI Travel With a New Booking Experience in ChatGPT
Good Sunday afternoon from Manson, Washington . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, January 30, 2026, is below. Accor garnered much of the travel industry’s attention this past week as it became the first…
The Growing Role of AI Agents in Online Travel and ChatGPT’s Ad Plans
Good evening from the ALIS Conference in Los Angeles . . . Our travel-shortened Online Travel Update for the week ending January 23, 2026, is below. This week’s Update features a wide variety of stories, including updates on two stories…
A Defining Start to 2026 for Online Travel: China Probes Trip.com, Airbnb Expands Its Hotel Ambitions and Google Unveils Its Agentic Booking Protocol
Good Sunday evening from a sunny Seattle . . . Our first Online Travel Update for 2026 is below. This week’s Update features new stories on China’s possible crack down on Trip.com, an update on Airbnb and its plans for…
Online Travel Update: 2025 Year in Review
Happy New Year . . . Our annual “year in review” Online Travel Update is below. We’ve enjoyed having the opportunity to work with many of you this past year and look forward to working with you in 2026.
Here’s…
The Next Phase of Travel Distribution Rekindles Pricing and Parity Debates
Happy Monday evening from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, December 19, 2025, is below. This week’s Update features a heavy concentration of important legal updates on local Chinese efforts to investigate…
Holiday Greetings – 2025 Year-End in Review From Larry’s Tax Law
AI Turns Up the Heat: OTAs Defend Their Turf as Big Tech Redraws the Map
Good Sunday afternoon from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, December 12, 2025, is below. This week’s Update includes a number of updates to stories we featured previously, including stories on the…
Travel’s Next Competitive Fault Lines
Good Sunday evening from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, December 5, 2025, is below. With last week’s Thanksgiving holiday break, our list of stories this week is longer than usual. Enjoy.…
