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70% of travellers already scan for cleanliness and bed bug safety before booking. This week, ChatGPT became the first AI that can answer them

research reveals that seven in ten travellers scan for cleanliness and bed bug safety before booking – from reading reviews to prompting AI (full study launching June 2026) Valpas , the platform for bed ... AI can only recommend what it can verify. We built the infrastructure that makes it verifiable. Martim Gois, Co-Founder and CEO of Valpas Beyond the App, AI-driven hotel search is evolving quickly.

Quis coniungit ipsos coniungentes? (Who connects the connectors?): A seamless travel journey in search of a traveler

The author argues that AI-powered booking connectors fail because they expect travelers to manage technical complexity rather than simplifying it. ... I teach students in their twenties for several weeks each year, and most of them have no idea what an AI agent is.

The Mystification of Hotel Sales

Some eagerly say they have a weekly sales meeting to review “business on the books” and “YTD revenue vs. goal.” Others talk about how they occasionally do ride-alongs on sales calls. ... Keeping your sales teams focused on the sales essentials that still matter, and perhaps matter even more so, in today’s world of generic, AI-generated auto-responses.

AI Agents Are Researching Your Hotel Before Buyers Call, Climate Anxiety Shifts 42% of Travelers Off-Peak, Accor Posts 5.1% RevPAR Growth Despite Middle East Headwinds

AI agents can now scan a hotel across every OTA and review platform to build a real-time reputation score, compare live rates against a compset, draft a negotiation brief identifying where a hotel has ... The practical implication for hotels is that Tripadvisor review data is now feeding AI assistant recommendations across multiple major platforms simultaneously. 82% of Europeans plan to travel April through

The Agentic AI Guest: Why Your Hotel Sales Team Is Now Competing With Chatbots

Corporate travel buyers now use AI agents to research hotels, benchmark rates, and analyze reviews before contacting sales teams, fundamentally changing the negotiation dynamic. She did not call us. ... This means treating every data point that an AI agent might scrape — review scores, rate parity gaps, meeting space specifications on third-party directories, press mentions — as a sales asset that requires

Ascott Invests in AI-Ready Infrastructure to Scale Agentic Commerce

Strategic collaborations with Accenture, Amadeus and EHL across technology, distributionand talent to advance AI-ready transformation New foundation layer to power the evolution of AI concierge Cubby from ... By focusing on meaningful guest interactions that translate into positive reviews and digital advocacy, Ascott is improving the discoverability of its properties in an increasingly AI‑led travel environment

Simone Puorto, Head of Innovation at Hospitality Net, Talks AI on the Resilient Tourism Podcast

Puorto discusses AI as a new interface replacing traditional software navigation and explores how human presence may become a luxury differentiator. ... If AI becomes the new user interface, then hospitality may gradually move from a browser-centric logic to an AI-centric one, both on the demand side and on the operational side.