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Monday opened with hospitality.today identifying how Booking.com's merchant model lets it set guest-facing prices below what hotels load, effectively removing hotel pricing control for an estimated one in five independent room nights, Royal Caribbean Group announcing a $3 billion acquisition of a 50% stake in Sandals and Beaches Resorts, and the AI Hospitality Alliance and HEDNA publishing a free crowdsourced catalogue of 109 AI use cases across 39 hotel systems. Rogue AI agents hitting government systems, Mews's EMI license, and five property openings from Nairobi to Central America rounded out the session.
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