Reading Time: < 1 minuteFrance: Hospitality group Accor has launched an ALL Accor booking app within ChatGPT, allowing travellers to search for hotels, compare rates and complete bookings via the group’s website.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTurkey: The Association of Turkish Travel Agencies (TÜRSAB) has filed a lawsuit seeking an access ban on 10 foreign travel and booking platforms, citing unfair competition and unregulated activity.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld complaints that four hotel and travel companies used misleading minimum prices
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWorldwide: TikTok has launched a set of advertising products designed to capture travel bookings directly through its platform, expanding its role in the travel and hospitality sector.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: TikTok and Booking.com have launched a partnership that allows US users to book hotels directly within the TikTok app.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEurope: More than 10,000 hotels across Europe have now joined the collective legal action against OTA Booking.com. The claim, coordinated by the Stichting Hotel Claims
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNetherlands: A group of more than 25 national hotel associations across Europe has filed collective legal action against Booking.com in the Netherlands.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBart-Jan Leyts, CEO and founder of Otamiser, explores how independent hotels can compete with larger chains on the OTAs by optimising search algorithms.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWorldwide: Research conducted by the online publication Cybernews explores how 22 travel and hotel apps access and collect user data, including location, camera and messages.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNetherlands: OTA Booking.com is ending its Travel Sustainable program and will replace it with the option to filter for properties with a third-party certification.
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