AI Is Rewriting Your GDS Listing Before Corporate Travelers See It, Agent-to-Agent AI Will Bypass OTAs Entirely, U.S. RevPAR Forecast Raised to 5.1%
Why this matters
Hospitality has separated by chain scale and demand segment, with luxury and resort outperforming and select-service holding pricing power on a leaner cost base. New construction starts remain at multi-decade lows, which has supported in-place RevPAR and made conversions of soft-branded flags an increasingly active part of transaction velocity. For sponsors with operational expertise, the sector continues to offer one of the more compelling income-plus-appreciation profiles available across CRE.
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Wednesday opened September with hospitality.today's discovery that AI-powered corporate booking tools like Concur and Navan rewrite, merge, and rerank GDS hotel listings before a traveler ever sees them, a companion a…
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