I see on the search page (when you search "Google Hotels" on the forums) that Chris Hynes has replied to this topic... but when I click on the comment it isn't showing up on this thread. @Chris Hynes can you share your response again please?
Chris Hynes in response to: Google Hotels Integration1 month ago
Google Hotels and GVR are basically the same thing -- GVR is just in VR mode, but under the covers it's Hotels and they both use the same XML feeds we already do. So supporting hotels is not a huge technical lift like creating a new channel, we'd just need to create and manage a separate feed.
That said, VR's are not allowed on Google Hotels. Hotels is only for properties that have a front desk and...
It’s true. OwnerRez is brilliantly rich with features and automations that the smaller hotel PMS’ are just truly lacking in. If OwnerRez could even just add connections to Google Meta Search (Google Hotels) and Expedia, even without room types, it would be life changing for boutique hoteliers. We would never have to leave OwnerRez.
Thank you for your renewed interest in this request, everyone!
We're discussing internally and will provide updates here as they become available. The year is young, and much of our future roadmap planning is still to be determined. You all make strong arguments here, and we will be exploring what options are available to us to see if we can hit the ground running on this any time soon.
THANK YOU!
Lodgify has an Expedia integration which pushes to Google Hotels. I don't love Expedia (or paying commission) so I'd prefer a direct integration to Google Hotels.
Glad this is being considered for 2026!!
Can you explain what you mean about not being on Expedia? Via Vrbo, my listings are on Expedia. Is there something I'm missing about this?
It's nuanced...
VRBO is for vacation rentals. Each VRBO listing can be pushed to Expedia as a stand alone property. This is fine for vacation rentals but not hotels.
If you list your hotel units on Expedia directly, your rooms are all nested under 1 "property". From there, Expedia pushes to all their brands like hotels.com etc & to Google Hotels.
As far as I can tell, VRBO listings pushed to Expedia are NOT listed on Google Hotels and Hotels.com for example... Expedia owns like 30+ other sites where we used to get bookings.
Since I switched to listing on VRBO, I no longer get listing visibility in these other Expedia owned sites & each of my hotel rooms are treated like individual properties, rather than rooms at the same property.
VRBO/Expedia has very little documentation about this and offers limited support so it is difficult to understand the full scope of differences...
Thanks for that explanation!
