Hotel Payment Gateways Need Rebuilding for AI Agent Commerce

On October 2, 2026, Hospitality Technology reported that a payment expert from ACI Worldwide pointed out that hotel payment gateways need to be retrofitted in advance for AI agent bookings. The expert said that if hotels wait until agent-driven traffic reaches 15% before updating fraud rules, legacy firewalls will automatically reject millions of dollars in genuine bookings; while rebuilding payment gateways, updating WAFs and dedicated API endpoints takes 12 to 18 months. This report is the only progress so far, and no specific hotels or policy implementation timelines were mentioned.