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Universal Commerce Protocol expands to hotel booking and food ordering
Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP): the open standard that makes Search, Gemini, Gmail, and YouTube into shoppable surfaces: is expanding into two new categories. Hotel booking integration is coming soon with launch partners including Amadeus, Booking.com, Expedia Group, Hilton, Marriott, Trip.com, Accor, Choice Hotels, IHG, and Wyndham.
What changed
Hotels become bookable inside AI-powered surfaces while the hotel industry retains control over customer relationships and payment infrastructure. Available in the US in English.
Food ordering integration launches with DoorDash, Square, Toast, and Uber Eats. Restaurants and food brands gain a standardised schema to expose menus and inventory to Google's commerce stack, while the merchant maintains Merchant of Record status and full control over customer data.
Why it matters for advertisers
For you, this means hotel groups, restaurant chains, and food-delivery brands should engage with their Google account teams now to scope UCP integration timelines. Particularly relevant for chains and franchises where the previous workflow required brand-by-brand integration with each AI surface, UCP collapses that into a single integration pattern.
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Universal Commerce Protocol expands to hotel booking and food ordering
Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP): the open standard that makes Search, Gemini, Gmail, and YouTube into shoppable surfaces: is expanding into two new categories. Hotel booking integration is coming soon with launch partners including Amadeus, Booking.com, Expedia Group, Hilton, Marriott, Trip.com, Accor, Choice Hotels, IHG, and Wyndham. Hotels become bookable inside AI-powered surfaces while the hotel industry retains control over customer relationships and payment infrastructure. Available in the US in English.
Food ordering integration launches with DoorDash, Square, Toast, and Uber Eats. Restaurants and food brands gain a standardised schema to expose menus and inventory to Google's commerce stack, while the merchant maintains Merchant of Record status and full control over customer data.
For you, this means hotel groups, restaurant chains, and food-delivery brands should engage with their Google account teams now to scope UCP integration timelines. Particularly relevant for chains and franchises where the previous workflow required brand-by-brand integration with each AI surface, UCP collapses that into a single integration pattern.
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