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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…
MarketInvisible 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.
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…
MarketFrom 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.
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