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It's different, but it's not a ground-shaking change the way Google or Facebook was. The way we did the agency model was so much easier. Around 2001, more or less, was when Expedia started in Europe and grew.

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Instead, in products such as Priceline.com's Name Your Own Price, consumers learn the room rate only after they enter their credit card information and their bids and bookings are accepted. So we always had a big affiliate business. We probably called them partners rather than affiliates. So yeah, we went with some of the big airlines.

It wasn't that we weren't listening to that research; it's that we thought, let's try it, and both consumers and hotels didn't like it. We thought, well, the only advantage here to us is the to cash flow. But most businesses flourish long term if they're serving their customers well. That same year, Bruinsma had sold Bookings.nl to Bookingsportal, which operated hundreds of hotel-booking websites across Europe in multiple languages, according to co-founder Arthur Kosten. It wasn't that Expedia was unsuccessful in Europe. They had a lot of trade in the UK, but it was very much focused around the chains and around the merchant model.