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Market moves, funding and hiring signals from across travel and hospitality tech.
TravelTech NewsTravel 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…
TravelTech NewsTravel 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…
TravelTech NewsTravel 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.
TravelTech NewsTravel 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,…
TravelTech NewsTravel 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…
TravelTech NewsWhat 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.
TravelTech NewsTravel 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…
TravelTech NewsTravel 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…
TravelTech NewsTravel 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…
TravelTech NewsTravel 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…
TravelTech NewsTravel 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…
TravelTech NewsTravel 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