When an airline overbooks a flight, they’ll tempt travelers with money, meals or overnight hotel stays in a last-ditch effort to avoid involuntarily bumping passengers. But how do overbooked hotels ...

Airlines aren't the only travel suppliers that overbook. Hotels also overbook, at least some of the time. And unlike with airlines, travelers overbooked by a hotel do not enjoy specific protection ...

That’s when a hotel tells a traveler with a confirmed reservation that it does not, in fact, have an available room and instead books a room for the guest at another hotel. “Walking” is not new.