Google’s Agentic Hotel Booking Tool Comes to AI Mode
Google is no longer just sending travelers to hotels and online travel agencies from AI Mode. Now travelers…
Google Brings Agentic AI to Ask Maps Hotel Search
Key Points Ask Maps now enables conversational hotel search with real pricing and availability, combining proximity, routes, nearby…
Google Confirms Hotel Agentic Booking Test in the U.S.
Google is now testing agentic hotel booking, a spokesperson confirmed to Skift. Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel referenced…
Google Names Hotels as Next Vertical for Agentic Shopping
Google on Tuesday named hotel booking as the next vertical for its Universal Commerce Protocol, publicly committing to…
Google Cloud Uses Travel to Show What Agentic AI Can Actually Do
At this week’s Google Cloud Next conference, which wrapped Friday, the company positioned travel as a testing ground…
Hotels and Airlines vs. NerdWallet and Reddit: Who’s Winning in AI Visibility
Ask an AI agent about a Hyatt hotel, and the source it cites most isn’t Hyatt. It’s NerdWallet…
Wyndham and Marriott’s Agentic Plans Put Pressure on Booking. Are the Concerns Justified?
Marriott and Wyndham revealed more of their plans to use agentic AI this week, and such efforts are…
What Expedia Says About the Coming Agentic Travel Fight
Expedia’s annual report last year didn’t mention agentic AI at all, not even in vaguely worded references to…
Booking CEO Touts Ties With Independent Hotels as Agentic AI and Airbnb Seek Gains
Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel talked up the company’s relationships with independent hotels as AI platforms and Airbnb…
Sabre, PayPal, and Mindtrip Partner on Agentic AI Travel Booking
Sabre, PayPal, and consumer AI travel platform Mindtrip are partnering to build what they describe as the industry’s…
Google’s New Tech Lets AI Agents Handle Checkout
Google wants AI agents to do more than answer questions. It wants them to complete purchases as well.…
TravelPerk Raises $200 Million for Business Travel Tech
TravelPerk said Tuesday that it has raised $200 million. It’s the first major venture capital deal in travel…