Here’s a new domestic travel study, best enjoyed while listening to an old CD or cassette tape your parents used to play in the car on road trips.

It comes after other Booking Holdings companies Kayak and OpenTable announced they would lay off, furlough or hand out reduced hours to at least 400 of their employees.

The online travel platform is giving its accommodation partners more flexibility than a room full of yoga teachers.

Agoda’s ‘Agojis’ front the OTA’s new brand campaign, which are not to be confused with emojis, animojis, Bitmojis, or Memojis.

Do you live in constant fear of the power and might of OTAs? Well, it might be best to skip over this news then.

Do you try to keep tabs on OTAs? Well, Travel Weekly has saved you from doing some of the legwork here.

Coincidentally, Travel Weekly’s editor is also trialling a new look. However, his cornrows are far less “fresh” than Agoda’s swanky new font and dots with eyes.

This study suggests that either agents are getting better at selling holidays, or Aussies are becoming uglier. Or both.

Sadly, there was no accompanying photo for this press release, so we’ve had to resort to a boring stock contract signing pic.

The naughty kids of the travel industry classroom (aka hotel booking sites) have agreed to sit up straight and behave following a talking-to from a competition watchdog.

Sadly, Agoda’s Peter Allen does not advise agents to hand out free avocados or discounted rates for first home buyers. Worth the read, nonetheless.

Our bucket list consists of attempting to eat a bucket-sized amount of guacamole. Agoda’s list is a bit more interesting.