Google Is Stripping Travel Search in Europe to Avoid More Fines

Google Is Stripping Travel Search in Europe to Avoid More Fines

Google scales back hotel, flight, and restaurant search features across Europe to dodge further EU fines, the bloc's border safety valve expires just as airlines warn of more delays, and hurricane season is putting a real dollar figure on what extreme weather costs hospitality companies.

On today's Skift Daily Briefing, Bailey Schulz, Skift's Global Tourism Reporter, breaks down why Google's European search changes are being cheered by some and criticized by others, what the expiration of the EU's border flexibility measure means for travelers heading into fall, and what Host Hotels' hurricane repair bills reveal about the growing cost of climate resilience in hospitality.

Articles Referenced:Connect with Bailey SchulzGoogle Update: Europe Travel Search Results and the DMAEU Ends Border Safety Valve as Airlines Warn of More DelaysWhat Hurricane Season Means for Hospitality's Capex

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