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How did you starve Booking? Didn'it just happen?

My point is that in this market it's really hard to attain channel balance.

It seems the OTAs alghoritms absolutely favour cannibalization.

I didn’t actively manage pricing, which I do on Airbnb - and had to charge a lot more on booking for the same revenue, as their commissions are fairly astronomical, if you want to feature anywhere other than the last page of search.

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