Articles tagged “google”

Today's edition of Skift's daily podcast looks closer at Wyndham’s earnings, Google’s travel priorities, and Royal Caribbean’s encouraging quarter.

Google's key priorities are artificial intelligence, retail, and YouTube. Travel is still an important vertical — it's just not a top focus.

Is Sonder a short-term rental operator of multi-unit apartments or a hotelier? Well, it's both, and the new collection is geared to help guests discover the difference.

TUI Group is one of the first companies to test how it can use a generative AI chatbot to help consumers search through its own portfolio of products.

All would admit that the way online travel companies display the climate impact of flights is vague and inadequate. But help is on the way.

Kudos to Google for bringing some diversity into the leadership of Google Travel. Left unanswered is whether the leadership changes portend any strategic shifts.

In this week’s news roundup, we start with a look at who the biggest player is in tours, activities, and experiences.

Ranking for city-specific experiences search terms is fiercely competitive and an expensive part of performance marketing that tends to favors online travel agencies with big budgets. A new carousel in Google's Things To Do adds an interesting shift in search display.

The fine print would ultimately determine the financial impact of the Digital Markets Act. But the fact that Booking Holdings filed a statement from Booking.com with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission about it this week means it believes the repercussions could be material to its operations.

The European Commission's logic appears to be that any strengthening of Booking.com — even in its flights business — would bolster its grip on the hotel business. Deal or no deal, Booking is committed to expanding in flights.