I am sitting in the front row, getting ready for the start of the Expedia Partner Conference 2015 at the Bellagio, Las Vegas, There couldn’t be a more appropriate place for a meeting by this giant of giants in travel.
Las Vegas is a place where everything is bigger than big, and size is everything.
At the check-in at Hard Rock Hotel, the staff apologises for the fact that “our hotel may not be the biggest” but makes up for it with “but we are surely the most entertaining”.
Even so, you have to walk across aisles of slot machines to get to your room " it’s all part of the Vegas experience " but in this land of giant hotels, Hard Rock could indeed be called an intimate experience.
Well, this Expedia event could hardly be called intimate. More than 3,000 delegates from 50 countries, 2,100 of whom are at this 16th partner conference for the first time.
Even though I am a first-time attendee, I can sense how the Expedia world has changed " inevitable really considering the $7.4b it’s spent thus far in strategic acquisitions spread across the globe.
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