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This week: LA’s expanded Transient Occupancy Tax, a securities fraud suit over Microsoft’s AI strategy, a Colorado junk fee case with implications beyond residential landlords, the Ninth Circuit blocking Hawaii’s gun law on private property, pushback on New York’s One Fair Price Act, and merchants turning

Good Sunday afternoon from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, August 14, 2026, is below. Google again garnered much of the industry’s attention this past week with its agentic AI announcement. Enjoy.

Additional Details Emerge Regarding Hilton’s Business Travel Re-Organization. In an interview with Skift at last

Good Sunday evening from Seattle . . . Our longer than usual weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, August 7, 2026, is below. This week’s Update includes recent earnings releases from Airbnb, Expedia and Booking.com (including copies of the Expedia and Booking.com earnings call transcripts). We begin this week’s Update with news

Good Sunday afternoon from Seattle . . . Our weekly Update for the week ending Friday, July 31, 2026, is below. Anti-trust rulings in both China and the U.S. garnered much of the attention last week together with continued reactions from the recently announced EU decision against Google. Finally, Google’s latest earnings release clearly demonstrates

Good Sunday afternoon from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, July 24, 2026, is below. Everything Google dominated the industry’s headlines this past week and hoteliers (particularly those with a significant presence in the EU, UK, Australia and perhaps beyond) need to take notice. I explain why

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This week’s roundup covers a broad sweep of consumer-protection and disclosure developments hitting the hospitality and lodging space: New York City’s crackdown on junk fees and difficult-to-cancel subscriptions, a landmark anti-trafficking training mandate in Hawaii, wins for hotel discount programs against surveillance-pricing bans, Seattle’s push against

Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, July 17, 2026, is below. It was another relatively quiet week in the online travel world with the only major news coming out of Booking Holdings over its anticipated consolidation of B2B programs. Enjoy.

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