News Summary

• Skift's Data + AI Summit in Europe this week just showed that AI may be changing travel distribution and internal operations, but booking volume is another story.
• Europe's independent hotels face a new AI visibility problem: travelers are using AI to plan but few are booking through it.
• The EU AI Act is giving European companies another reason to formalize how AI tools are reviewed and deployed internally.
• Roughly three-quarters of European hotels are independentl BILLED ANNUALLY.