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Mews buys twice, filling the gaps around the PMSTravelTech News

Travel Tech News — Mews bolts RMS and housekeeping onto the stack

Mews goes shopping twice in one week, Expedia thins out its VP ranks in an AI reorg and the major chains all reach for conversational search at once. Plus IBS adds a CRS/PMS/RMS layer, a white-label…

1 September 20263 min
Google's agentic booking test reaches the GDSTravelTech News

Travel Tech News — Google's agentic booking test reaches the GDS layer

Google's agentic hotel booking test lands at the GDS layer with Amadeus and Sabre in tow, Expedia's AI reorganisation costs eight senior leaders their seats, a $300m experience fund opens up and a…

25 August 20263 min
Sabre ships SynXis Property HubTravelTech News

Travel Tech News — Sabre ships SynXis Property Hub as PMS race heats up

Sabre releases its cloud-native PMS, Mews and SiteMinder tie up on distribution, Faye lands a $50m Series C and the executive chairs keep turning at Expedia, Sabre and Choice.

18 August 20263 min
Expedia adds Layla to the discovery layerTravelTech News

Travel Tech News — Expedia buys Layla as conversational booking heats up

Expedia adds an AI-native planner to its stack, IHG and Radisson push conversation-led search into the mainstream, and a cluster of CTO and board moves reshapes the leadership map at Choice,…

11 August 20263 min
Expedia names its first AI and data chiefTravelTech News

Travel Tech News — Expedia gives AI and data a seat at the top table

Expedia elevates AI and data to the C-suite, a run of CTO chairs change hands across hospitality, Oracle threads an assistant through OPERA Cloud and Cendyn starts watching how hotels show up inside…

4 August 20263 min
Invisible Staff: How AI Agents in the Back Office Are Rewriting Travel Tech Team DesignMarket

Invisible Staff: How AI Agents in the Back Office Are Rewriting Travel Tech Team Design

AI is moving from guest-facing chatbots to always-on agents that run pricing, distribution and operations. The shift changes who travel and hospitality brands need to hire.

3 August 20269 min
Travel Tech Talent Salary Guide 2026 FindingsTravelTech News

What seven US travel companies pay software engineers — and what the filings don't show

PhocusWire reported the two-tier split in US travel tech engineering pay. Here is the employer-level data behind it, the threshold that decided who appears and what filing data cannot show.

29 July 20266 min
WeTravel lands a $92M Series CTravelTech News

Travel Tech News — WeTravel banks $92M as MCP connectors flood HITEC

WeTravel closes a $92M Series C, the big PMS names bolt AI assistants into their workflows and a wave of MCP connectors positions hotels for agent-led bookings. Kayak, ATPCO and Casago all change…

28 July 20263 min
TikTok bolts a hotel-booking layer onto the feedTravelTech News

Travel Tech News — TikTok bolts a hotel-booking layer onto the feed

TikTok turns the feed into a booking channel, Oracle and Canary push AI deeper into hotel operations, Sonesta commits 1,100 properties to a cloud PMS and Direct Travel and Expedia rework their senior…

21 July 20263 min
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