Good Sunday evening from somewhere 30,000 over the mid-west . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, June 5, 2026, is below. It was another relatively quiet week in the online travel industry other than the many stories coming out of Skift’s annual AI Conference (where suddenly everyone started talking
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The State of Direct Booking
By Greg Duff
Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, May 29, 2026, is below. The short week (at least for those of us in the U.S.) made for a relatively quiet week in the online travel world. Enjoy.
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- Has the Direct Booking Decade Turned Out as
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AI Takes Center Stage at Expedia Explore and Google I/O
By Greg Duff
Good Monday afternoon from Seattle . . . For those of you celebrating and/or who have served, happy Memorial Day. Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, May 22, 2026, is below. Expedia Group and Google garnered much of the attention this past week as Expedia held its annual Explore event and…
Platform Players Stake Out New Ground in Online Travel Distribution
By Greg Duff
Good Sunday afternoon from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, May 15, 2026, is below. With quarterly earnings releases behind us, it was a much quieter week in the online travel world. TikTok garnered most of the industry’s attention this past week with its announced expansion of…
Major Earnings, Regulatory Pressure and a Surprise Acquisition Shape a Full Week in Online Travel
By Greg Duff
Good Sunday afternoon from Seattle and happy Mother’s Day to all our mothers . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, May 8, 2026, is below. It was another busy week in online travel as both Expedia and Airbnb released their quarterly earnings (transcripts from both earnings release calls are…
The End of Keywords? Travel Marketing Faces an AI Reset
By Greg Duff
Good Saturday morning from San Diego . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, May 1, 2026, is below. As the number of stories included in our weekly Update indicate, it was a busy week in online travel with Booking Holdings’ quarterly earnings release (a complete copy of the earnings…
Online Travel Faces the Next Phase of AI Commercialization
By Greg Duff
Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, April 24, is below. It was another interesting week at Booking.com (second in a row) as it faces yet another competition law inquiry – this time from Italian competition authorities over the preferential treatment provided properties in…
Gaps in Trust, Security and AI Visibility Define a Challenging Week in Online Travel
By Greg Duff
Good Sunday evening from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, April 17, 2026, is below. Booking.com featured prominently in many of last week’s industry headlines and for reasons it would probably rather avoid. Enjoy.
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- The Secret to AI Visibility? NerdWallet. Not really, but according to a recent
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Subtle Shifts in Online Travel: Hopper Lands RBC, AI Hiring Reveals Priorities & Booking.com Changes Course in Chile
By Greg Duff
Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, April 10, is below. It was a relatively quiet week in the online travel industry as evidenced from this week’s stories. Enjoy.
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- Hopper Scores Desperately Needed Victory with RBC. Last week’s newly announced partnership between Hopper and
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Amazon and OpenAI Push Ahead While Amadeus Scores a Court Win
By Greg Duff
Good Saturday afternoon from sunny Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, April 3, 2026, is below. This week’s Update features a variety of stories, including an update from Amazon and its plans for Alexa Plus and travel. Enjoy.
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- Amazon Seeks to Collapse Travel Discovery and Booking into
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