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This Week in Travel: NDC Progress, Booking.com Scrutiny, and AI Momentum in the Industry

Foster Garvey PC on 4/8/2025

Good Sunday morning from Seatle . . . Our Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, April 4, is below. This week’s Update features a number of follow up stories on topics covered in recent Updates, including...more

Travel Tech Trends: Perplexity’s Booking Leap, Airbnb Incentives & AI-Powered Planning

Foster Garvey PC on 3/31/2025

Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, March 28, 2025, is below. This week’s Update features stories on a variety of topics including Perplexity’s big booking...more

Online Travel Update: TripAdvisor's AI Partnership & Corporate Travel Merger Developments

Foster Garvey PC on 1/22/2025

Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, January 17, 2025, is below. Other than Perplexity’s newly announced partnership with TripAdvisor (readers, please read the story...more

Online Travel Update: A Growing Influence of Fintech Products and Their Suppliers

Foster Garvey PC on 6/21/2023

This week’s Update features a wide variety of stories, including two on the growing influence of fintech products and their suppliers...more

Online Travel Update: Dissatisfaction With Expedia Directors, and Apple Enters Fintech Space

Foster Garvey PC on 7/5/2022

Like prior weeks’ Updates, this week’s Update features stories on the growing phenomenon of fintech and its effect on the travel industry. Enjoy....more

Online Travel Update: Musafir Partners with Mastercard to Launch Innovative Payment Options, and Wyndham Announces New Trip...

Foster Garvey PC on 6/6/2022

This week’s Update features two stories detailing fintech’s growing influence on online travel. Regular readers of our Update know that we’ve featured a number of fintech and payment related stories this past year, with...more

Online Travel Update: Trivago Is Fined for Misleading Room Rates; Travel Influencers Are Under a Legal Microscope; and the U.K....

Foster Garvey PC on 5/2/2022

We begin this week’s Update with the promised overview of the DOJ’s recent guidance on the ADA and website accessibility. Enjoy....more

Online Travel Update: Expedia Partner Solutions offers carbon neutral hotel stays; traditional offline travel management companies...

Foster Garvey PC on 11/29/2021

For those of you celebrating Thanksgiving this week, happy holidays. This week’s Update features a wide variety of stories, including PhocusWire’s annual list of the 25 hot travel startups. Enjoy....more

Online Travel Update: Hopper continues its meteoric rise; Accor moves group bookings online; Capital One grows its travel...

Foster Garvey PC on 10/25/2021

This week’s Update again features a number of stories on fintech and its emerging influence on the travel and lodging industries. Enjoy....more

Online Travel Update: Travelport and Amazon Web Services announce travel startup accelerator; recent studies reveal Generation Z’s...

Foster Garvey PC on 9/27/2021

Where did summer go? It was another quiet week in the online travel world, though I expect things may pick up in the weeks ahead as everyone returns from their summer breaks. Enjoy....more

Online Travel Update: Expedia continues to overhaul their leadership; Sabre partners with ByHours to distribute hourly room...

Foster Garvey PC on 6/7/2021

This week’s Update features a couple of stories (including one by Seattle’s own Geekwire.com) detailing the recent executive shake up at Expedia. Enjoy....more

Online Travel Update: Tripadvisor Plus continues to grab attention; distributors' “narrow parity” compromise in South Korea;...

Foster Garvey PC on 3/29/2021

This week’s Update provides additional information (and perspectives) on Tripadvisor’s new subscription program (Tripadvisor Plus), parity updates from South Korea and the latest on Fareportal’s antitrust claims against...more

OTA & Travel Distribution Update: Hotel partnerships with co-working companies continue to rise; Google plans to phase out...

Foster Garvey PC on 10/19/2020

This week’s Update features two stories on the growing (temporary?) phenomenon of using hotel guest rooms and other public spaces for those seeking an alternative arrangement to working from home and how those new remote work...more

OTA & Travel Distribution Update: Apple’s updated privacy practices may create headaches for marketers

Foster Garvey PC on 9/14/2020

As summer was coming to a close last week (and people everywhere were doing best to hang onto the last few glimmers), there was little noteworthy news coming out of the distribution world. Enjoy....more

OTA & Travel Distribution Update: Google continues to unveil new travel products despite pandemic; Choice Hotels enters into a...

Foster Garvey PC on 8/31/2020

This week’s OTA & Travel Distribution Update includes Google prominently featured in the news and a new agreement for Choice Hotels. Enjoy....more

OTA & Travel Distribution Update: Expedia's Vrbo sees significant growth in bookings; Expedia expands cryptocurrency payment...

Foster Garvey PC on 7/17/2020

Several themes emerged in this week’s stories, including the bullish return of short-term rentals and the continued direct booking efforts by airlines and the metasearch sites seeking to serve them. Enjoy....more

OTA & Travel Distribution Update: Radisson partners with Hotelbeds; Expedia offers more details on its partner recovery program

Foster Garvey PC on 7/10/2020

Perhaps it was Canada Day or the Fourth of July holiday weekend, but last week was relatively quiet in the distribution world. Enjoy....more

OTA & Travel Distribution Update: Blackrock leads funding round for guest acquisition platform SiteMinder; CheapAir transforms...

Foster Garvey PC on 1/27/2020

This week’s Update features a number of stories on growing online travel platforms – including the launch of an entirely new travel application and the possible resurrection of an old familiar travel application....more

OTA & Travel Distribution Update: Sudden resignations of Expedia Group CEO & CFO; Kayak’s metasearch business model evolves with...

Foster Garvey PC on 12/16/2019

It should come as no surprise that stories detailing the unexpected resignations of Expedia’s top two senior executives are featured prominently in this week’s Update. Rather than just recirculating the usual industry...more

Short-Term Rental Update: Vacasa reaches unicorn status with its latest funding round; Airbnb bans 'party houses'

Foster Garvey PC on 12/10/2019

We have some great updates in the STR space this week, including: Vacasa Reaches Unicorn Status - (“Real estate’s newest unicorn: Vacasa raises $319 million, now valued at more than $1 billion,” HousingWire on Nov 1, 2019)...more

Short-Term Rental Update: Airbnb poised for a reprieve in the EU; Guesty offers innovative and more streamlined tools for property...

Foster Garvey PC on 5/20/2019

Airbnb poised for a reprieve in the EU - ("Why Airbnb Could Escape the Uber Trap in Europe," Fortune Magazine on Apr 30, 2019) The Court of Justice of the European Union is considering whether Airbnb was breaking the...more

Short-Term Rental Update: Airbnb argues about City of Boston's short-term rental ordinance; AirDNA expands footprint of rental...

Foster Garvey PC on 4/19/2019

Airbnb Back in Court - ("New rules don’t seem to be bringing Boston many short-term rental applications," Curbed - Boston on Apr 10) Earlier this week, Airbnb was in court arguing that the City of Boston’s short-term...more

OTA & Travel Distribution Update: Effects of Google's trademark and keyword practices changes; Japanese regulators conclude Airbnb...

Foster Garvey PC on 11/12/2018

This week’s Update features a variety of stories covering search, short-term rentals, wholesalers and traditional OTAs. This week's highlights include...more

OTA & Travel Distribution Update - Agoda Homes seeks to gain ground; Direct booking is best according to Australian regulators;...

Foster Garvey PC on 10/1/2018

Agoda Homes Seeks To Gain Ground - ("OTAs Booking Holdings’ Agoda Takes a Distinctive Approach on Short-Term Rentals," Skift Travel News on September 21, 2018) For some time now, Agoda has featured short-term rentals on...more

OTA & Travel Distribution Update - Job postings hint at TripAdvisor's growing interest in travel packages; Orbitz held to be a...

Foster Garvey PC on 9/14/2018

Job Postings Hint at TripAdvisor’s Growing Interest in Travel Packages - ("TripAdvisor Hints at Its Growing Interest in Vacation Package Search," Skift Travel New, September 6, 2018) Since April of this year, TripAdvisor’s...more

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