Cross-brand trade press and regulator coverage of online travel distribution. Not a booking platform — this record holds industry-wide sources that report on the whole OTA sector rather than a single brand.
Dara Khosrowshahi told Skift Global Forum that Uber's hotel bookings run at break-even by design, funding 10-20% Uber One discounts, with Vrbo rentals arriving later this year and flights on hold.
Trip.com Group's Golden Week 2026 data shows Chinese travellers departing earlier, staying longer and stringing cities together — with seven-night-plus hotel bookings up 123% year on year.
Uber and Airbnb are both selling hotel rooms now, from opposite starting points. Skift argues neither has yet shown the hotel bet is incremental rather than cannibalized.
SiteMinder's channel data puts Madrid's average daily rate for the 10–13 September Grand Prix at €485, against €286 for the same weekend in 2025 — on room nights up only 3.5%. Booking lead time stretched from 90 to 130 days.
A USHCC poll commissioned with Airbnb finds 76% of Latino adults see short-term hosting as a practical income supplement — and 52% favour allowing hosting under reasonable guidelines, against 43% of the general population.
Europe's General Court dismissed Booking Holdings' appeal against the 2023 prohibition of its €1.63bn Etraveli acquisition, endorsing a "reverse leveraging" theory of harm that applies to dominant firms only — leaving Expedia free to keep buying in adjacent categories.
Airbnb says the Commission's draft Affordable Housing Act sets the right principles but leaves hosts exposed to arbitrary local restrictions, and wants a notification-and-review process attached before it becomes law.