The New AI-OTA War: Why AI is Scraping Your Data to Kill Your Direct Channel
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The New AI-OTA War: Why AI is Scraping Your Data to Kill Your Direct Channel

The hospitality industry is facing an immediate and existential competitive threat unlike any seen since the rise of the OTAs. In the past, your website data was a marketing expense; today, it has become the primary fuel source for the next generati...

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Mark Fancourt
Co-Founder at TRAVHOTECH
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by Mark Fancourt
17 October 2025TRAVHOTECHOnline Travel Agencies (OTA)
The New AI-OTA War: Why AI is Scraping Your Data to Kill Your Direct Channel
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Expedia Group B2B Supercharges Partner Growth With New AI-Powered Trip Planner and Multiple APIs

During its EXPLORE Connect B2B event for APAC partners, Expedia Group unveiled a new suite of AI and machine learning-powered tools designed to help partners drive speed, scale and personalization. Highlights include Smart Trip AI™, a new trip plann...

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Expedia Group B2B Supercharges Partner Growth With New AI-Powered Trip Planner and Multiple APIs10 October 2025Expedia Group, Inc.Online Travel Agencies (OTA)
Expedia Group B2B Supercharges Partner Growth With New AI-Powered Trip Planner and Multiple APIs
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Shiji proudly announces Iceportal Content surpasses 2.5M images distributed globally

Shiji, the global hospitality technology leader, is proud to announce that its hotel content distribution and management platform, Iceportal Content has reached live distribution of over 2.5 million hotel images globally, marking a major milestone i...

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Shiji proudly announces Iceportal Content surpasses 2.5M images distributed globally 9 October 2025ShijiOnline Travel Agencies (OTA)
Shiji proudly announces Iceportal Content surpasses 2.5M images distributed globally
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Booking.com Debuts Agentic AI Innovations, Adding to its Robust Suite of GenAI Tools for Customers

Today, Booking.com has announced the launch of its first customer-facing agentic AI innovations: Smart Messenger and Auto-Reply, designed to make partner-to-guest communication faster, streamlined, and more intuitive.

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Booking.com Debuts Agentic AI Innovations, Adding to its Robust Suite of GenAI Tools for Customers 9 October 2025Booking.comOnline Travel Agencies (OTA)
Booking.com Debuts Agentic AI Innovations, Adding to its Robust Suite of GenAI Tools for Customers
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HotelRunner and Visa Partner Globally to Power Embedded and Autonomous Finance in Travel

Uniting the strength of Visa’s trusted infrastructure with HotelRunner’s deep presence in hospitality, this strategic preferred partnership sets the foundation for a new era of embedded finance in travel. By bringing Visa’s products directly into Ho...

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HotelRunner and Visa Partner Globally to Power Embedded and Autonomous Finance in Travel 7 October 2025HotelRunnerOnline Travel Agencies (OTA)
HotelRunner and Visa Partner Globally to Power Embedded and Autonomous Finance in Travel
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The Great Tech Reset: Agentic AI and the Coming Rebalance of Power in Hospitality

The hospitality industry stands on the precipice of its most profound disruption since the internet. It’s an existential shift, driven by Agentic AI, and it threatens to dismantle the decades-old power structure of hotel distribution. For years, hot...

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Lighthouse launches Smart Distribution to automate pricing and channel management for independent hotels

Lighthouse, the leading commercial platform for travel and hospitality, today announced Smart Distribution, an AI-powered feature that automatically optimizes pricing and distribution across booking channels for independent hotels.

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Lighthouse launches Smart Distribution to automate pricing and channel management for independent hotels23 September 2025LighthouseOnline Travel Agencies (OTA)
Lighthouse launches Smart Distribution to automate pricing and channel management for independent hotels