Hotel connectivity stopped being plumbing
Expedia Group and RateHawk published research the same week recasting hotel connectivity from neutral infrastructure into the entry condition for AI-driven, platform-controlled distribution.
Expedia Group and RateHawk published research the same week recasting hotel connectivity from neutral infrastructure into the entry condition for AI-driven, platform-controlled distribution.
The author argues that true AI-native hotel distribution requires live pull architecture and settlement layers, a gap Google won't fill due to its ad-auction model, leaving an opening for a new entrant.