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TikTok just rolled out a feature that could disrupt the whole hospitality industry. Meet TikTok Go: The first major step toward social platforms becoming full-fledged booking engines. We've been… | Ben Wolff | 71 comments

  • Ben Wolff
  • 15 September 2025
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TikTok just rolled out a feature that could disrupt the whole hospitality industry.

Meet TikTok Go:

The first major step toward social platforms becoming full-fledged booking engines.

We’ve been saying it for years, social media has become the primary discovery engine for modern travelers. 81% of travelers use social for travel inspiration.

Gen Z and millennials aren’t starting on Booking.com or Expedia – they’re scrolling through Instagram and TikTok, getting inspired by content.

But until now, there’s been massive friction in the discovery-to-booking journey.

A potential guest discovers your property on social media, gets excited, wants to book, but then has to click through your profile, find your website, navigate to booking pages, and enter dates.

At each step, you lose potential guests.

But TikTok Go changes this completely.

Here’s how it works: Eligible creators can partner with hotels to create content and earn commissions when that content drives bookings.

Users can now book hotels directly inside TikTok through a Booking.com integration.

Each participating hotel gets a dedicated landing page showing prices, amenities, reviews, nearby attractions, and related TikTok videos.

This is a fundamental shift creating several massive advantages:

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1. Seamless Discovery-to-Booking: Guests inspired by your content can book immediately, eliminating the friction that kills most social media conversions.

2. Potentially Better Attribution: For the first time, we could have clear tracking from social content to actual bookings, solving the attribution blindspots that have plagued social media ROI calculations.

3. Creator Economy Leverage: You can tap into established creator audiences without building your own following from scratch.

The program is already active in Indonesia and Japan, now rolling out across the U.S., with plans to expand beyond hotels into food, wellness, and other local services.

We’re witnessing social media platforms taking their first major step toward overtaking OTAs. The exact mechanics will evolve, but the change has been set in motion.

Every major shift in hospitality creates a brief window where early adopters capture outsized returns.

Websites in the 90s. Mobile booking in the 2010s. Social commerce in the 2020s.

The hotels building serious social media followings today will be best positioned when these booking features become standard across all platforms.

While most properties post occasional content and hope for the best, smart operators are treating social media as their primary guest acquisition engine.

TikTok Go is just the beginning.

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