Skift Take
Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern is waging a simplicity campaign. Turning the Expedia and Hotels.com loyalty programs into a single plan might make sense. But one thing definitely on the agenda is trimming marketing through Google, a company Kern characterized as a "shark."
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Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern, on the job for five months but a board member there for a decade-and-a half, thinks Google is a "shark," and that Expedia in the past "paid lip service" to reducing its dependency on the travel business formerly known as a se