Google travel tips

Four years after Google debuted a vacation rental feature in Google Travel, it is starting to show booking links and nightly rates from multiple companies for each listing rather than from just one.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Friday, May 12. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Richard Holden, who was general manager of Google Travel for the past three years, and led its product management team for almost seven years before that, has been replaced, Skift has learned.

Has travel been downgraded a tad at Google? This much is clear: Executives don’t talk about travel as among the company’s highest priorities.

It was the first big week of earnings this season, with numbers out of Accor, Google, Hilton, Southwest, Wyndham, and Royal Caribbean. They were, for the most part, upbeat – Hilton’s CEO said, “We had the best booking quarter in our history, ever.” One note: Google Travel was low on Google’s priorities.