Online Travel Faces Key Questions Heading Into Earnings

As the earnings season, when public companies issue their quarterly results, kicks off for online travel agencies this week, we'll be looking to see how inflation and other economic disruptions are impacting their summer and fall outlooks, and whether they have anything innovative in the works.

India's MakeMyTrip will be one of the first online travel agencies to report their financials on Wednesday and then earnings will likely run for another couple of months as China's Trip.com Group usually issues its numbers in late September.

Here are a few things we are looking for from the individual companies:

How Was Airbnb's July?

Analysts expect Airbnb to report strong bookings growth for the second quarter, which ended June 30, but what will the short-term rental giant say about how things were trending in July? Did bookings growth show signs of slowing in July, as some expect?

Airbnb commentary on how its bookings are faring so far in the third quarter will send its share price up or down.

Also, will Airbnb mention its mid-quarter search category expansion, and whether this disrupted operations, as many hosts on social media insist?

Will Tripadvisor's New CEO Tip His Hand About Strategy?

Tripadvisor has its first new CEO, Matt Goldberg, in more than two decades. During his first earnings call as Tripadvisor's new boss, investors will look to see if he moves ahead with a potential plan to spin out activities aggregator Viator and also possibly dinin