🧓 Spanish grandmas and overnight trains

Also, Accor and Airbnb bury the hatchet

💸 Five hotel CEOs made more than $120M combined last year

And Booking.com gets in legal trouble (again)

🧨 Hackers hit Booking.com and the PMS drama between Cloudbeds and Mews

Also, Stayntouch posts its best quarter ever

💰 Ennismore proves tech investment pays off and 94% of hotels are invisible to AI

Also, Oracle lays off 30,000 employees

🔦 Cloudbeds exposes OTA dominance and Expedia is in the pole position

Also, Tripadvisor previews its AI travel planning

🦈 Google smells ChatGPT's blood and Apaleo raises the bar

Also, Radisson targets 100 net zero hotels by 2030

🗺️ Google Maps learns to think and Marriott goes commercial

Also, Europe launches a new biometric border entry system in April

🚨 OpenAI retreats from hotel bookings, and OTAs are already celebrating

Also, FLYR becomes the recommended RMS for Preferred Hotels & Resorts

🪩 ITB Berlin steals the show and three hotel giants under investigation

Also, Cloudbeds and Climber RMS launch a two-way integration

🔫 Storytelling becomes hotel tech's secret weapon

Also, a 10 property group competes with global chains

🚨 Marriott and Hilton sound the alarm, Hyatt celebrates, and IHG prepares

Also, Expedia's latest aggressive strategy

🚀 Marriott skyrockets, Pitchup breaks through, and Accor throws an ultimatum

Also, Naboo raises $70M

📱 Canary bets on mobile keys and BWH partners with Tripadvisor

Also, Accor enters ChatGPT

✂️ Expedia cuts jobs (again) despite record growth, and Siri gets a second chance

Also, TripWorks raises $6 million

🚨 Mews lands $300M and Duetto warns on hotel profitability

Also, Maestro PMS reveals its roadmap for 2026

🌛 HBX hacks Gen Z travel habits and the first hotel on the Moon

Also, Airbnb hires a tech titan and the HotelTechAwards 2025

🚣‍♂️ Marriott goes all-in on outdoor experiences and a new hotel tech job platform

Also, Airbnb reflects and fresh funding

🔌 Expedia plugs hotels into Alexa+ and reflections from 2025

Also, DerbySoft and Trip.Biz automate corporate RFPs

🔮 Airbnb predicts 2026, Duve secures $60M, and Stayntouch upgrades its PMS

Also, Duetto plans a global summit and Cloudbeds adds AI messaging

🔎 A deep dive into the history of hotel tech

🍸 Amadeus coins "travel mixology" and the gap inside hotel teams gets bigger

Also, STR hosts struggle with AI

🌟 Cloudbeds and Duetto reveal fresh insights and ChatGPT loses momentum

Also, the deals of the month

❄️ Tripadvisor's latest insights on winter demand and Amex GBT explores a potential sale

Also, Cloudbeds brings AI marketing tools to hotels and Trip.com adds events

➗ Sonder crumbles, WhatsApp simplifies identity and digital marketing struggles

Also, Google expands its travel tools and Shiji embeds payments

❗ Airbnb’s unexpected new AI strategy and Cloudbeds builds a trusted tech list

Also, RMS new integrations and Amenitiz raises $45 million