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Expedia Vice Chairman Tells Employees It's Time to Focus and Help Our Travel Partners

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Photo Credit: With Expedia Group employees and partners in attendance, Good Morning American anchor Robin Roberts interviewed Expedia Group Chairman Barry Diller on stage at the Expedia Explore '19 conference in Las Vegas November 14, 2019. Expedia Group / Adam Shane Productions

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There will be a reckoning and perhaps a reordering of the competitive landscape once the coronavirus crisis fades. Meanwhile, companies such as Expedia Group know they need to have extreme focus to dig out of the mess.

In an internal letter to employees, Expedia Group Vice Chairman Peter Kern told staff to set aside any projects that don't contribute to meeting the company's immediate needs and exhorted employees to help travel partners find business anywhere they can. “If you’re wondering how we might help our travel partners survive all this, well, our travel partners need whatever business they can find," Kern wrote in a message to employees on Monday that was obtained by Skift. "So if there is travel going on out there, we need to find it and book it for them.” Although Kern ad

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