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
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Good Sunday afternoon from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, June 28, 2026, is below. It was another relatively quiet week in the online travel world unless you are Trip.com, in which case you probably wish it had been even quieter. Enjoy.
China’s Trip.com Braces for Regulatory Fallout. In
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Good Sunday afternoon from Seattle . . . Our Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, June 19, is below. The past two weeks have been remarkably uneventful in the online travel world as evidenced by our short list of stories below. Perhaps the summer doldrums have arrived early this year. Enjoy.
Amadeus Announces Ongoing Efforts to
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Good Sunday evening from somewhere 30,000 over the mid-west . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, June 5, 2026, is below. It was another relatively quiet week in the online travel industry other than the many stories coming out of Skift’s annual AI Conference (where suddenly everyone started talking…
Good Monday afternoon from Seattle . . . For those of you celebrating and/or who have served, happy Memorial Day. Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, May 22, 2026, is below. Expedia Group and Google garnered much of the attention this past week as Expedia held its annual Explore event and…
Good Sunday afternoon from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, May 15, 2026, is below. With quarterly earnings releases behind us, it was a much quieter week in the online travel world. TikTok garnered most of the industry’s attention this past week with its announced expansion of…
Good Sunday afternoon from Seattle and happy Mother’s Day to all our mothers . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, May 8, 2026, is below. It was another busy week in online travel as both Expedia and Airbnb released their quarterly earnings (transcripts from both earnings release calls are
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Good Sunday afternoon from Seattle and happy Mother’s Day to all our mothers . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, May 8, 2026, is below. It was another busy week in online travel as both Expedia and Airbnb released their quarterly earnings (transcripts from both earnings release calls are…
Good Saturday morning from San Diego . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, May 1, 2026, is below. As the number of stories included in our weekly Update indicate, it was a busy week in online travel with Booking Holdings’ quarterly earnings release (a complete copy of the earnings…
Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, April 24, is below. It was another interesting week at Booking.com (second in a row) as it faces yet another competition law inquiry – this time from Italian competition authorities over the preferential treatment provided properties in…
