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Market moves, funding and hiring signals from across travel and hospitality tech.
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
TravelTech NewsTravel 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.
TravelTech NewsTravel 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
TravelTech NewsTravel 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
TravelTech NewsPMS 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.
TravelTech NewsHospitality Tech Drew Over $1 Billion in Funding — PMS and AI Platforms Take the Lion’s Share
Abode Worldwide's index confirms hospitality tech drew more than $1bn in funding with PMS and AI platforms taking the lion's share of investor capital.
TravelTech NewsExpedia Hits Record Q1 Profitability — and Its AI Overhaul Is Just Getting Started
Expedia posted record Q1 profitability and signalled its AI overhaul is only beginning as travel giants bet big on spending their way to smarter platforms.