With Travel at Historic Low, Investors Buy Billion-Dollar Stake in Expedia
Business Wars Daily
Wondery
4.6 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Today is Monday, April 27, and we’re looking at Expedia Travel vs. Booking.com.
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| 1:10.7 | How does a little holiday in the Scottish Highlands sound? Lovely? |
| 1:14.2 | Even during this lockdown, plenty of people thought so and reserved properties for rent on the global travel website, booking.com. |
| 1:20.8 | In fact, so many tourists continued to putter about the Scottish countryside that it alarmed the locals. |
| 1:27.3 | Like rural residents all over, they feared travelers might bring COVID-19 with them and overwhelm |
| 1:32.4 | small hospitals. |
| 1:33.8 | And so Ian Blackford, the area's presumably exasperated member of parliament, asked booking.com |
| 1:38.8 | to quit offering reservations for the bucolic countryside. |
| 1:42.2 | Finally, last week, the giant travel company complied now you can't |
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