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Mews finishes the build, SiteMinder moves inTravelTech News

Travel Tech News — Mews completes its AI-native OS as SiteMinder moves inside the PMS

Mews finishes its operating-system build and pulls SiteMinder's distribution engine into the PMS, MCP connectors keep multiplying as hotels court AI agents directly and a run of C-suite chairs change…

14 July 20263 min
INTELITY wires AI across the guest journeyTravelTech News

Travel Tech News — Guest-journey platforms make their AI play

INTELITY and a rival stack push cross-module AI into hotels, Maestro leans on robots and integrations, Mews and SiteMinder consolidate the channel layer and the wider read on agentic AI, NDC friction…

7 July 20263 min
From Chatbot to Copilot: How Back-Office AI Is Rewriting Travel Tech Org ChartsMarket

From Chatbot to Copilot: How Back-Office AI Is Rewriting Travel Tech Org Charts

AI in travel is quietly moving from traveller-facing novelty to operational backbone. That shift is reshaping role profiles, org charts and what technical leaders cost.

6 July 202610 min
Hotel tech clears the billion-dollar mark, PMS takes the cutTravelTech News

Travel Tech News — Hotel tech crosses the billion-dollar funding mark

Hospitality tech clears $1bn for the year with PMS and AI guest platforms taking the lion's share, the major chains keep wiring conversational search into their booking flows and HITEC throws off a…

30 June 20263 min
Mews bolts BI onto the operating systemTravelTech News

Travel Tech News — Mews embeds AI into the PMS, again

A quieter week on the M&A front, but plenty moving inside the hotel stack. AI discovery tools keep landing, two acquisitions tighten the guest-journey layer and a handful of leadership chairs change h

23 June 20263 min
Hotels rush to plant flags inside ChatGPTTravelTech News

Travel Tech News — Hotels rush to plant flags inside ChatGPT

A quiet week for deals, but a loud one for AI distribution. Hotel chains are racing to be found inside chatbots, while vendors line up tools to track whether anyone can actually see them there.

16 June 20263 min
Pricepoint banks $4.8M to automate the rate movesTravelTech News

Travel Tech News — Pricepoint raises to push pricing automation

This week, the news sits with the smaller players: a seed round in revenue management, a free booking API and a wave of integrations tying guest-facing tech into back-of-house

9 June 20263 min
Agentic Commerce Arrives in Travel: The Teams Built to Search, Assemble, and TransactMarket

Agentic Commerce Arrives in Travel: The Teams Built to Search, Assemble and Transact

AI in travel is moving from chatbots to agents that book. The organisational and hiring consequences of that shift are larger than the technology itself.

2 June 202610 min
Mews bolts SiteMinder onto its PMSTravelTech News

Travel Tech News — Mews bolts SiteMinder onto its PMS

A quiet week on the capital markets front, with the rails and the big OTAs sitting on their hands. The action this week is in product — distribution layers, conversational front-ends and the slow grin

2 June 20263 min
When the Buyer Is a Bot: How Agentic Commerce Is Redrawing Travel Tech Org ChartsMarket

When the Buyer Is a Bot: How Agentic Commerce Is Redrawing Travel Tech Org Charts

Travel platforms are starting to treat AI agents as a distribution channel and an API consumer in their own right. That changes who you hire, and where technical leadership sits.

1 June 202610 min
Making AI Boring: How the Move to Data Ops Is Rewriting Travel Tech Org ChartsMarket

Making AI Boring: How the Move to Data Ops Is Rewriting Travel Tech Org Charts

The competitive edge in travel tech has shifted from guest-facing AI to clean inventory, mapping and reliable automation. Here's what that means for who you hire.

1 June 202610 min
PMS Platforms Captured $408 Million in 2026 — and Now They Want to Swallow the Whole StackTravelTech News

PMS Platforms Captured $408 Million in 2026 — and Now They Want to Swallow the Whole Stack

Hospitality tech startups raised over $1bn in a year and PMS platforms took the biggest share as they move to own the entire operating stack.

26 May 20265 min