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Case Study: Should a Hotelier Invest in a New Kind of Online Travel Agency?

Harvard Business Review

Lotta, who’d joined Ervaring from Marriott two years before, was the first to admit that her new company, with 12 brands operating 5,000 hotels, mainly in Europe, needed help. Although this wasn’t out of the ordinary for European hoteliers, Ervaring needed to reduce its cost per booking to improve its bottom line.