Worldwide: Travel and hospitality operating system Lighthouse has launched The Hotels Network app, a direct booking platform for hotels available in ChatGPT.
The app, powered by Lighthouse’s Connect AI engine, is available to hotels of every size worldwide on a flat fee subscription with zero booking commissions.
Connect AI creates a live data bridge between hotels and AI platforms. When a traveller asks ChatGPT for hotel recommendations, the response draws on accurate, real-time information directly from the property, not scraped summaries.
The Hotels Network app is will surface results that are built on verified, hotel-approved content such as accurate descriptions, real photography and live rates. Travellers are then routed back to the hotel’s own website to complete the reservation.
“AI is the biggest shift in how travellers plan their trips and discover hotels since Google, and the OTAs have already moved,” said Juanjo Rodriguez, head of direct booking at Lighthouse. “The Hotels Network app is the industry’s answer. Properties can now control how they’re discovered, tell their own story and surface their own rates, all inside the conversations where trip planning starts. This isn’t an incremental improvement. It’s a new distribution channel. And the hotels going live today are shaping how the next generation of travellers discovers and books hotels.”
The Hotels Network app is live in the ChatGPT App Directory.
Highlights:
- Lighthouse launches The Hotels Network app inside ChatGPT, enabling hotels to surface direct booking options within AI travel search conversations.
- The platform is powered by Lighthouse’s Connect AI engine, which connects hotel systems to AI platforms and delivers real-time property data, rates and availability.
- Travellers who discover hotels through ChatGPT are redirected to the hotel’s own website to complete the booking.
- Lighthouse offers the AI distribution platform on a flat subscription fee with zero booking commissions.
