European Hotel Investment Defies 2025 Uncertainty, Securing €14.6 Billion in Resilient Transactions Amidst Global Headwinds
European hotel investment demonstrated remarkable resilience in 2025, shrugging off a year marked by pervasive global uncertainty to record a robust €14.6 billion (approximately $17.1 billion) in transactions across 267…
Expedia and Booking Holdings Surge as OpenAI Retreats from Transactions, But AI’s Reshaping of Travel Discovery Poses Deeper Challenge
Shares of leading online travel agencies (OTAs) Expedia Group and Booking Holdings experienced a significant uptick following reports that OpenAI had scaled back its ambitions to enable direct transaction capabilities…
Google Forges Ahead with Universal Commerce Protocol, Contrasting OpenAI’s Retreat from Direct AI Transactions
Google is charting a distinct course in the burgeoning landscape of AI-driven commerce, unveiling its Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) capabilities, even as rival OpenAI recently scaled back its direct AI…









