PMS News Desk · Oct 24, 2026 · 3 min read
HostIQ forecasts revenue, occupancy and ADR per property and now connects to OwnerRez. It is billed separately, per property, with launch pricing held for 24 months.
Agilysys says 8 of the 10 properties on AAA's first Diamond Top 10 Casino Hotel List run its software. The company names neither the properties nor any results, so read it as market position rather than evidence.
Reservations now carry a rental agreement's name, ID and signing status, available to API partners. The filled fields and the signed PDF are reachable only with a personal access token.
Expenses recorded in Hostaway now create bills in QuickBooks Online, one per expense, either automatically or on demand. Editing an expense or its receipt updates the bill.
Iceportal Content can now generate hotel content in other languages from an English master, with the hotel's own team approving each version before it is distributed. The announcement claims 28 languages and lists 27.
Truvi's analysis of 95,000+ protected bookings puts direct bookings at 1.85 times the average damage risk, up from 1.34 in May. Local guests, same-day bookings and houses with group amenities carry the most risk.
Expedia Group's Autonomous Onboarding lets a property sign up as a channel inside the software it already uses, with Expedia pulling rates, photos and amenities across automatically. Five connectivity partners piloted it.
From 20 November, Airbnb hosts can no longer require guests to do dishes, strip beds or take out rubbish, and rules added by message or sign carry no force. Separate contracts and guest data collection are restricted too.
Smoobu has rebuilt its message templates with custom SMTP sending, one-click AI translation into ten languages, conditional sending rules and PDF attachments. Most of the new power applies to email rather than OTA threads.
Owner agreements in Booking Experts can now cap how many nights an owner books within a timeframe, across discount and pool point budgets. Week 42 also brings iiQ-Check surveys, PDF attachments on confirmations and browser autofill.
Two student and young professional housing platforms join Blueground and Wunderflats, giving Hostify users four mid-term channels. Commission and payout terms are not stated.
roommaster has shipped an AI Connector built on the Model Context Protocol, so staff can ask a general AI assistant about arrivals, balances and availability. It needs the latest build, and nothing in the release describes it writing back.