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

Hi there — welcome back to The Regulatory Check-In!

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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Good Sunday morning from London . . . We are back after the July 4 holiday break. Our Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, July 10, 2026, is below. Hilton’s announced direct connection with managed travel platform Navan (and the bypassing of traditional global distribution systems) captured most of this past week’s headlines

Hi there — welcome back to another edition of The Regulatory Check-In!

This week’s roundup covers a lot of ground: an EEOC lawsuit that should make every employer rethink gender-specific programming, a $35 million FTC settlement over hidden travel fees, new junk fee rules hitting hotels and restaurants in multiple jurisdictions, the ongoing DEI enforcement