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Google switched on agentic hotel booking inside AI Mode this week, nine months after announcing it. Set that next to GuestCentric's finding that 56% of engaged hotel website visitors show genuine intent to book while 98% leave anyway, mostly over unanswered questions and checkout friction. The conversion problem was never traffic. It was the missing answering layer, and Google has just volunteered to be it. Connectycs is betting the other way with Yabook.ai, arguing that AI trained on one property's actual inventory converts better than a general model, and Milestone is running a webinar on 10 September purely on getting hotels visible to AI recommendation engines. That is where the anxiety sits right now. Booking.com's European Accommodation Barometer 2026 sets the frame: 66% of accommodations expect a good year, but 72% of chains describe a healthy position against 55% of independents, and only 60% of small properties feel ready for a cyberattack versus 94% of large ones. My read for the next six to twelve months is that agentic booking widens that gap rather than levelling it. Chains have structured data, entity control and consolidated stacks, the way ExplorUS collapsed six systems into Cloudbeds across 30 parks. Independents have PDFs and a booking engine from 2019. The defence is not more tech. Kike Sarasola is right that beige is a strategic error, and Madrid hotels selling used furniture through The Hotel Drop this week from €9.99 says more about character than any campaign. Comunidad Valenciana's tourism reputation failing again proves the point in reverse. If an agent books your room without a human ever seeing your site, what exactly are you still selling?