WTF is Google doing? And should hotels care?
Search, AI agents, and what hotel marketing teams need to plan for next.
What this session covers
Google is rewriting how hotel guests discover, compare and book. AI Overviews are eating organic clicks. Google Hotel Ads is mid-shift. And agentic AI is changing who's actually browsing your booking engine on behalf of the guest.
In this session, Charlie Osmond and Sanjay Vakil (DirectBooker, ex-Google) unpack the updates, joined by special guest Brad Brewer (Agentic Hospitality).
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Meet the speakers
Sanjay Vakil
Brad Brewer
Key takeaways
Where Google traffic is going (and not going) in 2026.
What AI Overviews actually do to your direct bookings.
How agentic AI changes who books on your site.
The 3 things hotels should do this quarter.
What metasearch looks like in an AI-first SERP.
How to prepare your data stack for an agent-driven world.
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