Good Sunday afternoon from Seattle . . . Our Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, February 7, 2025, is below. This week’s Update features a variety of stories, including details on Expedia’s recent quarterly earnings release, news of
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AI's Impact on Travel: OpenAI's "Operator" Tool and Its Disruptive Potential
Good Saturday morning from Seattle . . . Nice to be back in balmy (25°) Seattle after a week working in frigid New York.
This week’s Update presents yet another announcement by yet another generative AI platform about yet another…
Online Travel Update: TripAdvisor's AI Partnership & Corporate Travel Merger Developments
Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, January 17, 2025, is below. Other than Perplexity’s newly announced partnership with TripAdvisor (readers, please read the story below), this past week was…
2025 Travel Trends and Updates: AI's Impact, UK Travel Changes, and a Focus on Safety
Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our first Online Travel Update for 2025 is below. The past two weeks produced a number of interesting stories, including the Department of Justice’s attempt to stop the planned Amex GBT /…
2024 in Review: Key Highlights from Online Travel Updates
Good Sunday morning and Happy New Year!! We are again providing a roundup of a few of the stories that we feel made the biggest impact in the online travel industry over this past year (and continuing into this year). …
Breaking Down the FTC’s Junk Fee Rule: What’s Next for Travel and Events
Good Sunday morning from Seattle and happy holidays . . . Well, we definitely missed this one. Last week I wrongly predicted that we would see little near term progress on national junk fee regulation. With leadership at the FTC…
Travel Trends Under the Spotlight: Google, Booking, and Loyalty Programs
Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, December 13, 2024, is below.
Google and its “efforts” to comply with the DMA again garnered most of the industry’s attention. As I…
Travel Industry Trends: Junk Fees, Layoffs, and Expedia’s Package Deal Shake-Up

Good Sunday evening from Seattle . . .
As many of you know, I returned a few weeks ago from an extended sabbatical – three months well spent traveling, cooking, reading and driving my wife crazy. Now that I am…
Travel Tidbits: Breaking News and Insights from the Online Travel World
Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update (my last for the next 3 months) for the week ending August 2, 2024, is below. Last week was a busy week in the online travel industry…
Online Travel Update: Google's Shift on Cookies & Booking.com's Legal Scrape
Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, July 26, 2024, is below. It was a relatively quiet week this past week in the online travel industry, at least until…