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Video: Online Travel Founders Talk Game-Changing Deals, Big Upcoming Trends

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Jason Clampet

Photo Credit: (From left) Skift Executive Editor Dennis Schaal, Priceline.com founder Jay Walker, former National Leisure Group co-CEO Brad Gerstner, Expedia Inc. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, and Expedia founder Rich Barton engage in a free-flowing gab-fest about the early days of online travel at the Skift Global Forum 2016 in Manhattan September 27.  Skift

Skift Take

Moral of the story about the early years of online travel? Not to over-simplify, but be prepared to take risks, feel free to contradict conventional wisdom, and assemble the best damn team that you can.

If you were to only watch one video from Skift Global Forum 2016, make it this one. The panelists talked about back-room maneuverings in the two-decade-long annals of online travel; they dished about deals overlooked, lost or consummated, and they mused about the future of travel, from wiring up the gamut of lodging types for online booking to the future of voice search and artificial intelligence. In a first-of-its-kind pa

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