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      "title": "AI Will Reshape Hotel Distribution More Fundamentally Than OTAs Ever Did",
      "summary": "LLMs are changing how travelers discover where to stay. The hotels that understand this shift early will capture demand at lower cost.",
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      "title": "Why Most Hotels Don't Appear in AI Search Results — And What to Do About It",
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      "title": "The Direct Booking Playbook Is Broken",
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      "title": "Generative Engine Optimization for Hotels — A Practitioner's Field Guide",
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      "title": "Luxury Hotel Brand Positioning in an AI-Mediated Market",
      "summary": "Luxury brand positioning now competes inside model context windows. The narrative work, source surfaces, and entity hygiene that win citation.",
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